"Riot police were again deployed on Kos on Thursday, as the small Greek island continues to struggle with an unexpected surge in migrants from Syria, the Middle East and beyond.
More than 23,000 have arrived since January, and now up to 800 a day
Some chose to sleep in the yards and porches of nearby houses, angering the locals.
"Mohammad Irfan" (I suspect it's not his real name) steps from the deflating corpse of a dinghy he and six friends paddled for five hours across the narrow strait between Greek island Kos and Turkey, battling the tide. They came originally from Pakistan.
"I will work in a barber shop!"
