EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA TRAIN EU-bound migrants board a night train in Macedonia

Record ID: 140557

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA TRAIN EU-bound migrants board a night train in Macedonia
  • Date: 1st September 2015
  • Summary: GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (SEPTEMBER 1, 2015) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON GROUND MAN AND CHILD SLEEPING ON GROUND VARIOUS OF TRAIN ARRIVING MIGRANTS WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS IN LINE WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS IN LINE MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN TWO WOMEN AND CHILD LOOKING FROM WINDOW VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARD TRAIN/ MIGRANTS SHOWING "V" SIGN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN VARIOUS OF TRAIN LEAVING STATION
  • Embargoed: 16th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7504S3PYFWUOR3MZ4J4G1G6ST
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Several hundred migrants boarded a train in the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija taking them northwards towards Serbia on Tuesday evening (September 1 ).
    The government-provided train, which runs twice per day, takes migrants and refugees - mostly Syrian - through Macedonia and stops on Macedonia's northern border with Serbia, where the migrants cross into Serbia on foot.
    In their search for a better life free of conflict and political instability, almost all hope to reach the more affluent countries of northern and western Europe such as Germany and Sweden.
    As the flow of people taking the Balkans route towards western Europe continues, the UN estimates that up to 3,000 migrants are expected to cross into Macedonia every day in the coming months, most of them refugees fleeing war, particularly from Syria.
    In response to the flow of migrants, Hungary is building a 3.5-metre high fence along its 175-km (110-mile) border with Serbia, taking a hard line on what right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban says is a threat to European security, prosperity, and identity.
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