EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GREECE-MACEDONIA BORDER-STORM Lightning and rain greet migrants at the border between Greece and Macedonia

Record ID: 139984

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GREECE-MACEDONIA BORDER-STORM Lightning and rain greet migrants at the border between Greece and Macedonia
  • Date: 11th September 2015
  • Summary: IDOMENI, GREECE (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DOZENS OF MIGRANTS GETTING OF A BUS AT THE EDGE OF THE GREEK BORDER TOWN OF IDOMENI (SOUNDBITE)(English) SYRIAN REFUGEE, AHMED FARIZ, AGED 40, SAYING: "All the people coming to Europe run away from the war. Please, I tell all Europe and United (States) help, help all the Syrian people, help all the Iraqi man, all the Afghanistan man." VARIOUS OF NEWLY ARRIVED MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS BORDER VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WITH BACKPACKS AND BAGS WALKING ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS IN THE BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN GREECE AND MACEDONIA VARIOUS OF MOTHERS WITH THEIR CHILDREN IN CARRIERS WALKING ON THE TRACKS VARIOUS OF DOZENS OF MIGRANTS HOLDING PLASTIC BAGS WITH FOOD WALKING ON TRACKS LIGHTNING OVER FIELD LIGHTNING OVER MOUNTAIN IDOMENI, GREECE (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING ON TRACKS AS LIGHTNING LIGHTS UP THE SKY WOMAN WITH BABY IN CARRIER UNFOLDING PLASTIC BAG FOR RAIN COVER QUEUE OF MIGRANTS AND LIGHTNING IN SKY MIGRANTS WEARING PLASTIC BAGS WITH HOLES FOR THE ARMS CUT OUT AS RAIN COVERS/ LIGHTNING MIGRANTS WEARING PLASTIC BAGS BABY IN CARRIER UNDER AN UMBRELLA MAN CARRYING BABY IN BASKET VARIOUS OF MIGRANT WEARING PLASTIC BAG AND CHILD ON HIS SHOULDERS WAVING AT CAMERA VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS PUTTING ON RAINCOATS BOY PUTTING ON RAINCOAT GIRL PUTTING ON RAINCOAT/ SOUND OF BABY CRYING TODDLER CRYING AS MAN PUTS RAINCOAT OVER HIM MIGRANTS WEARING PLASTIC BAGS AND CARRYING UMBRELLAS WAITING IN THE RAIN TODDLER IN THE ARMS OF MAN WITH UMBRELLA VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WEARING PLASTIC BAGS WALKING TOWARDS BORDER IN THE RAIN POLICE MOTIONING TO MAN WITH CRYING TODDLER IN HIS ARMS TO MOVE MAN WALKING
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Greece
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7XKAIAGTHZ05689H1QDN13RSH
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Lighting lit up the sky on Friday (September 11) as migrants, mainly refugees from the Syrian war, queued in the rain to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia.
    Despite the worsening weather conditions, busloads of migrants continued to arrive to the Greek border town of Idomeni and make the trek over the railroad tracks into Macedonia.
    Syrian refugee, Ahmed Fariz, asked for the European Union and the United States to help those that came seeking safety from the conflict zones of the Middle East.
    "All the people coming to Europe run away from the war. Please, I tell all Europe and United (States) help, help all the Syrian people, help all the Iraqi man, all the Afghanistan man," said the 40-year-old Fariz.
    Greece is struggling to cope with a wave of migrants using Greece, Macedonia and Hungary as transit routes to wealthier northern European nations, in one of the biggest migratory shifts in Europe in a century.
    Since the beginning of the year about 500,000 migrants have reached the European Union, escaping war and misery in their home countries.
    EU diplomats are set to work through the weekend to try to settle arguments about how to tackle Europe's refugee crisis before a crunch meeting of interior ministers on Monday.
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