Greece police have detained 40 Afghan nationals for questioning following a large brawl on Saturday between a group of Afghan and Syrian migrants at a state-run camp of Malakasa, on the outskirts of Athens, that resulted in the death of a 31-year-old Syrian man, according to Greece’s local newspaper Kathimerini report.

The report said that the police intercepted the 40 suspects on a train in nearby Avlona as they apparently sought to flee the region. Another 70 people -- all Syrians -- believed to have been involved in the fracas were also detained at Larissis Station as they had also been trying to flee, it appears. 

The victim suffered serious head wounds, apparently inflicted with a sharp object, during the brawl on Saturday. 

Over the summer, migrants at the camp had held protests over conditions at the overcrowded facility.