Migrant killed by sand cleaner

A 30-YEAR-OLD Romanian migrant sleeping on the beach near Athens was killed and her husband was in critical condition last night after a sand-cleaning machine ran over them, Greek police said.

"The driver thought there were just clothes abandoned on the beach," said a police official. "He drove over them." The driver was arrested for homicide by accident, the official said.

The couple had been sleeping on the beach at the Paleo Faliro coastal suburb for a month, police said. Many migrants use Greece as their springboard to the rest of Europe.