Greek police arrest trafficker with 90 migrants in truck
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Greek police say they have arrested a trafficker carrying 90 migrants in his truck container.
The truck was inspected outside the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki Friday morning, police announced Saturday.
Police arrested the truck driver, a 55-year-old Greek man.
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The migrants included 21 minors, police said, with more than 60 Iraqis and others from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Congo and Iran. They had crossed from Turkey, having paid 1,800 euros ($2,100) each to be transported to Athens, police said.
In a separate incident close to Greece's border with Turkey, police arrested a 39-year-old Syrian national who was carrying ten migrants, nine Syrians and one Iraqi in his passenger car, police said.