The incident took place in a Peloponnesian village in southern Greece
where at least one farm supervisor opened fire at the workers, BBC
reported.
Several of the workers have been taken to hospital but none are in critical condition, it said.
Jamal Hossain, Counselor of Bangladesh mission in Greece, told BBC Bangla that he already reached the troubled area.
Hossain said 16 Bangladeshi workers were given first aid while the condition of seven others remained serious.
The owner of the farm in Nea Manolada and one foreman have been arrested.
Nea Manolada, about 260km (160 miles) west of Athens, is an area where thousands of migrant workers are employed.
Around 200 workers had gathered to request their unpaid salaries when at least one farm supervisor opened fire.
The BBC report said that AP news agency quoted police Captain Haralambos
Sfetsos as saying that the workers had "moved threateningly" towards
foremen.
In addition to the two men already arrested, warrants for two further arrests have been issued, the report said.
Nea Manolada has a history of exploiting migrants.
In 2008 workers staged a strike against inhumane conditions. There have also been reports of previous attacks.
A
social media campaign has now been launched to boycott the fruit from
Nea Manolada, calling them "blood strawberries", BBC says.
The
Council of Europe - the main European human rights watchdog - issued a
report this week detailing abuse against migrants in Greece.
The
report warned of a growing wave of racist violence, stating that
"democracy is at risk". It highlighted the role of the neo-Nazi Golden
Dawn party.
‘WE ARE AFRAID’
Reuters news agency reported that
anti-foreigner sentiment has been rising in Greece, where one in four workers is
unemployed after five years of recession.
One of the immigrants involved
in the protests told Greek Skai TV that they had been promised wages of 22 euros
(19 pounds) a day.
"They keep telling us that we will get paid in a
month, and this has been going on for more than a year," said the worker, who
was not identified. "We don't talk about it because we are afraid that we will
be killed or kicked out."
Greece is a gateway for mostly Asian and
African migrants trying to enter the European Union through its porous sea and
land borders.
Most of those who find work in Greece are employed
illegally; more than 40 percent of Greece's informal workers are
migrants.
The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils
Muiznieks, said after visiting Greece this year that he was seriously concerned
about a rise in racist violence and urged authorities to get
tougher.
Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou on Thursday condemned what
he called an "inhuman attack".
"This unprecedented and shameful act is
foreign to Greek ethics," Kedikoglou was quoted as saying by Reuters.
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