(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 11 SET - European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas, who visited Lesbos on Thursday, said additional ships financed by the EU would provide shelter to those most in need.

Greek security forces arrived en masse on the island of Lesbos on Friday to help build a new shelter for thousands of migrants left homeless by fires that destroyed their camp this week. In a sign of growing frustration days after the blazes, hundreds staged a protest on the road between their charred camp and a town, carrying signs reading "We want freedom" and "we don't want a new camp" as riot police escorted them.

Some 11,500 asylum seekers including 2,200 women and 4,000 children are without adequate shelter, the UN refugee agency said Friday, following the fires on Tuesday and Wednesday that gutted the Moria camp. (ANSA).