Migrant mother ‘gives birth on uninhabited tiny island near Lesbos’

A paramedic holds a newborn boy at Mytilene port, on the north-eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday June 22 2022 (Panagiotis Balaskas/AP)

A woman from Eritea has given birth on an uninhabited rocky islet after travelling with other migrants from nearby Turkey, authorities in Greece say.

A coastguard official said 29 adult Eritreans ‒ 24 men and five women ‒ were spotted on Wednesday during a patrol near the eastern Greek island of Lesbos.