Bulgarian police fired water cannon and rubber bullets at rioting migrants angered at being confined to their refugee camp during a health scare, the interior ministry said. Earlier on Thursday, camp residents set fire to furniture and tyres and threw stones at riot police, who deployed water cannon. “We used a water cannon, blanks and rubber bullets as well as physical force,” said Georgi Kostov, the interior ministry’s chief secretary, outside Bulgaria’s biggest refugee camp. He said was not aware of any wounded migrants. The head of the Bulgarian refugee agency, which runs the camp and took the decision to seal it temporarily to allow health authorities to investigate, told Bulgarian national radio that those reports were false.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 00:07 UTC