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Migrants stage roof protest over detention conditions at Corinth

Police negotiators on Tuesday talked six migrants down from the roof of a detention center in Corinth, west of Athens.

The migrants had been protesting the conditions they were being held in.

All six were from Algeria.

An interpreter helped police officers convince the men to climb down.

A total of 272 migrants are being held at the Corinth camp.

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