ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police say two people have died on the Greek island of Lesbos and two others were seriously injured after a fire raged through a refugee camp used for migrants facing deportation back to Turkey.

Police early Friday said the fire at Moria refugee camp started by a cooking gas canister and that the victims were a young boy and an older woman. Two others were hospitalized, including another child, with extensive burns, an officer told The Associated Press.

He asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the news media.

The fire was put out but the extent of the damage was not immediately clear. Migrants at the camp clashed with police during the evacuation.

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</s>Hungary could deport hundreds of Afghan refugees after 24 police officers were reported injured during violent clashes in Bulgaria's largest refugee camp late Thursday and early Friday.

About 2,000, mostly Afghan, refugees burnt tires and furniture and threw stones at some 250 police officers, gendarmerie members and firefighters at the Harmanli reception center.

More than 400 migrants were arrested as police quelled the protest with rubber bullets and water cannons.

The migrants were protesting recent bans on leaving the camp, imposed after alleged outbreaks of infectious disease within the center.

Arrested protesters face extradition to Afghanistan as early as next month, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Friday after canceling a trip to Hungary.

"I am very worried ... You see there is no window left unbroken. The people who committed these acts of vandalism will be brought to justice," he told reporters.

"Based on an agreement between the European Union and Afghanistan we have asked for a plane to start extraditing people there in early December. As for the rest, all who have acted brutally and violated public order will be moved to closed camps."

Local police chief Nina Nikolova told the AFP news agency earlier Thursday that the situation was under control and the protesters were talking with the state refugee agency.

But clashes reignited in the evening when police used two water cannons to force the group back into the buildings and prevented them from leaving the center.

Infectious disease reports

Authorities had sealed the camp to investigate reports of contagious diseases in the center.

Last week Harmanli residents, supported by nationalists, held a protest calling for the camp's closure following local media reports of skin diseases such as chicken pox as well as viral infections in the camp population.

Residents demanding camp's closure

The head of the Bulgarian Refugee Agency, Petya Parvanova, told BNR reports of disease were false and there was no medical reason to quarantine the camp.

Refugees clash with police in Greece

On the Greek island of Lesbos, dozens of frustrated migrants briefly fought police after two people were killed and two others were injured in an accidental gas canister fire at the Moria refugee camp late on Thursday.

A 66-year-old woman and a 6-year-old were killed, police said, while a 25-year-old woman and a 4-year-old were seriously injured and sent to Athens for medical treatment.

"We are not animals, we are human beings," a migrant told reporters. "You people say United Nations, United Nations has human right, but we don't see any human rights here. We don't see any freedom, we don't see any democracy here."

Dozens of tents were burned and container cabins with medical supplies, clothes and documents were damaged, a police official said.

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Police in Bulgaria say about 400 migrants have been detained after clashes with police at a refugee camp left several injured. Another 15 migrants have been arrested for damaging property.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov arrived at the camp in southern Bulgaria early Friday and said five of the detainees would immediately be deported as a threat to national security.

Borisov says the rest will be placed would be placed in locked reception centers.

Police say about 2,000 migrants were involved in the conflict that reportedly erupted Thursday over the camp being put under quarantine following an alleged outbreak of infectious diseases.

Migrants allegedly set fires and threw rocks at police, who responded with water cannons and rubber bullets.

Borisov says two dozen police officers and two refugees were injured.</s>SOFIA, Bulgaria — Police detained 200 migrants after they clashed with police at a refugee camp in southern Bulgaria on Thursday, injuring several officers.

District police spokeswoman Nina Nikolova said some 2,000 migrants were involved in the scuffles. Shouting slogans, they allegedly set tires and furniture on fire and threw rocks at police.

Tensions rose again Thursday evening and police used water cannons to disperse the violent crowd. Some 14 officers were injured in the clashes, interior ministry chief of staff Georgi Kostov told reporters. He said that 200 of the rioting migrants were detained and placed in custody.

Prime Minister Boiko Borisov was expected to arrive to the scene later in the evening.

The clashes reportedly broke out after migrants complained about the camp being isolated following an alleged outbreak of infectious diseases.

The head of the state refugee agency, Petya Parvanova, said there was no medical reason to quarantine the camp, but that local authorities had sealed it off after local residents protested.

About 3,000 people, mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, are staying at the camp in Harmanli, near the border with Turkey.

Last month, several hundred Afghans staged protests demanding to be allowed to move westwards to Europe.

Despite a wire fence that Bulgaria has erected on its border with Turkey in an attempt to prevent illegal crossing, migrants continue to enter the Balkan country of 7.2 million.

According to official statistics, some 13,000 migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, are currently in Bulgaria.

Harmanli residents have staged protests, demanding the immediate closure of the refugee camp. On Thursday, they received support from dozens of nationalists from nearby regions who arrived in the city calling for an immediate return of the migrants to their home countries.</s>Bulgarian riot police stand near garbarge bins during clashes in the migrants reception centre in the town of Harmanli on November 24, 2016 (AFP Photo/)

Sofia (AFP) - Around 1,500 migrants rioted on Thursday in Bulgaria's largest refugee camp, triggering clashes that left 14 police officers injured and prompted the arrest of at least 200 protesters, officials said.

"The number of injured police officers has risen to fourteen," Bulgaria's interior ministry chief of staff Georgy Kostov told public BNT television late Thursday.

"Over 200 migrants have been detained so far," he said, adding that more arrests were likely.

Angry migrants -- mostly Afghans -- set car tyres on fire and threw stones at around 250 police officers, members of the gendarmerie and firefighters at the Harmanli reception centre near the Turkish border earlier Thursday to protest a recently imposed ban on migrants leaving the centre pending medical checks.

Local police chief Nina Nikolova told AFP earlier Thursday that the situation was under control and that the migrants were in talks with the state refugee agency.

But tensions flared up again in the evening when police had to use two water cannons to push the rioting group of migrants back into the buildings and prevent them from leaving the camp.

The centre, which houses just over 3,000 migrants, was the scene of another protest in October when several hundred Afghans demanded they be allowed to continue their journey towards western Europe.

With a fence along the Turkish border, Bulgaria has largely remained on the sidelines of Europe's worst migration crisis since 1945.

Nonetheless around 13,000 migrants, mostly from Afghanistan, are currently trapped in the European Union's poorest country.

Although the so-called Balkan migrant trail was effectively shut down in March, migrants have continued to cross the region in smaller numbers.

Tensions have been rising particularly in Greece where tens of thousands of people remain stranded.

Neo-Nazis launched last week attacked a migrant camp on the eastern Greek island of Chios.

A number of people were injured in the violence, which also left dozens of refugees stranded without tents.</s>Bulgaria will move hundreds of people who clashed with police at a refugee camp to closed camps and hopes to start extraditing some to their native Afghanistan next month, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has said.

More than 400 asylum seekers, angered at being confined at the camp in the southern town of Harmanli near the border with Turkey over a health scare, were arrested after clashes with riot police late on Thursday.

Police used water cannon and rubber bullets to quell the riot, in which the interior ministry said 24 officers were hurt. Three migrants sought medical help after the riot, it added.

Prosecutors said they had charged 18 refugees and migrants over the riot and launched an investigation against unidentified police officers for injuring two refugees during the clashes.

On Friday, the refugee camp, Bulgaria's largest and home to about 3,000 asylum seekers, had broken windows, overturned trash containers and other debris strewn around.

It was heavily guarded by about 250 riot police and the defence ministry said it was sending about 60 army troops to support them in preventing any further escalation of violence.

“I am very worried ... You see there is no window left unbroken. The people who committed these acts of vandalism will be brought to justice,” said Mr Borisov, who cancelled a visit to Hungary because of the riot.

“Based on an agreement between the European Union and Afghanistan we have asked for a plane to start extraditing people there in early December. As for the rest, all who have acted brutally and violated public order will be moved to closed camps,” Mr Borisov said.

More than a million migrants and refugees have entered the European Union over the past 15 months, many fleeing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Some have entered Bulgaria, an EU member, from Turkey hoping to carry on to wealthy western Europe where most want to settle and build a new life.

Mr Borisov urged residents of Harmanli to stay calm and to avoid provoking the asylum seekers. A small group of local people waving national flags demanded the camp's closure.

“This camp should be closed. You should see what it's like here at weekends. They go around in big groups and take fruit and vegetables at the market without paying,” said one resident, Rusi Stoev.

Last week some local people, led by nationalist parties, staged protests against the camp following media reports that migrants were suffering from contagious skin diseases.

The tensions caused the temporary closure of the camp to allow health officials to investigate. They said the reports had been exaggerated and that there was no public health risk.

Bulgaria has built a fence along its border with Turkey and has beefed up border controls to deter the migrants. Some 17,000 people were detained in the first 10 months of the year, down by more than a third from the same period in 2015.

Despite the decreasing numbers, Bulgarian nationalists have staged protests in recent months calling for the immediate closure of all refugee centres and for migrants to be returned to Turkey or to their country of origin.

Many of the refugees and migrants at the Harmanli camp have asked for free passage to Serbia - on the route from Bulgaria to western Europe - but the interior minister said such a move would be politically impossible and has deployed more police officers to Harmanli.
Protesters clash with police and gendarmerie members at the Harmanli refugee camp in Bulgaria following a quarantine placed on the camp amid fears of a disease outbreak. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says five detainees would immediately be deported as a threat to national security.