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August 11, 2016 - Lesvos, Greece - Piles of lifejackets in Lesvos island, about 10m high on 11 August 2016. Cheap and crappy lifejackets were sold in Turkey. About 500.000 lifejackets are gathered here near Molivos in Lesvos island from the 2015 arrivals. Also the Chinese Ai Weiwei artist took many of them in Berlin and exhibited them in a public building. Thousands of people drawned between Greece and Turkey as the dinghies were in bad condition and the lifejackets didn't work. In 2015 there were days that there were more than 5000 refugee arrivals daily. (Credit Image: © Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)

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