A cat has been reunited with its refugee family who fled Iraqi after becoming separated from them during a boat crossing from Turkey to Greece.

Volunteers rushed to find the missing cat, nicknamed 'Dias', after he panicked and ran away when the family came ashore in Lesbos, Greece.

The mother and her five children were desperate to locate their beloved cat and spent days trying to find him in Greece before they had to travel to Berlin.

Back together: The family are reunited with their beloved cat Dias after they traveled from Iraq to Europe

The cat, nicknamed 'Dias' after the Greek name for Zeus, has been cared for by a vet and was flown to a temporary home in Berlin as Ashley Anderson tried to track down his original owners

Dias was aboard a boat from Turkey to Greece but panicked and fled into hiding when he reached the shore

Locals eventually discovered Dias who took him to see a vet to feed and care for the cat. He was given the nickname as it is the modern Greek word for 'Zeus'.

American volunteer Ashley Anderson and her friends, Amy Shrodes and Michelle Nhin, then launched a campaign to locate the cat's family.

Posters written in both English and Arabic were placed around Greece and Berlin in a bid to find his original owners.

Ms Anderson had written on the cat's crowdfunding page: 'We don't know the family names or have a photo of them, but we do have the info of how he came to be here at the beginning of November from eyewitnesses.'

Posters written in both English and Arabic were placed around Greece and Berlin in a bid to find his original owners

Ms Anderson spent £480 of her own money flying Dias to Berlin while she carried out a campaign to reunite him with the family from Mosul, Iraq

If the original owners were not found, Dias's current home in Berlin wiould have become his permanent home