UN says alarm about refugee center

geneva - Refugees and migrants dying from the cold wave in Europe and governments must do more to help. With that message came the refugee agency of the United Nations (UNHCR) on Friday.

A UNHCR spokeswoman said five deaths from the cold and warned that about a thousand people in unheated tents and shelters are in Greece. She called to convey to affected refugees to better shelters.

The refugee agency and a local partner spent all vulnerable refugees Lesbos recently for hotels. Most migrants were living in tents, but that was because of the winter weather no longer tenable. The European Union funded according to the UNHCR a short-term plan for emergency shelter.