EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA NIGHT TRAIN Hundreds of migrants get onto night train in Macedonian border town

Record ID: 140643

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA NIGHT TRAIN Hundreds of migrants get onto night train in Macedonian border town
  • Date: 31st August 2015
  • Summary: GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (AUGUST 31, 2015) (REUTERS) TRAIN COMING TO PLATFORM MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN CHILD WAVING FROM TRAIN WINDOW MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN GIRL STANDING WITH MIGRANTS TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING MIGRANTS IN LINE TO BOARD TRAIN MAN CARRYING CHILD WALKING GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (AUGUST 31, 2015) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) BOY WAVING TO CAMERA / MIGRANTS SHOWING "V" SIGN BOY ON MAN'S SHOULDER SHOWING "V" SIGN MIGRANTS WALKING INSIDE TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING THROUGH GATE MAN CARRYING CHILD TWO MEN WATCHING FROM TRAIN WINDOW WOMAN CARRYING CHILD WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS SITTING INSIDE TRAIN COMPARTMENT VARIOUS OF TRAIN LEAVING EMPTY CAMP / RED MOON IN SKY RED MOON
  • Embargoed: 15th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA2LE71Y4YXFLOKSEARJ5PF7VQV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Several hundred migrants and refugees boarded a train in the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija taking them northwards towards Serbia on Monday evening (August 31).
    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.
    As the flow of people travelling the Balkan route towards western Europe continues unabated, UN estimates some three thousand new refugees and migrants are expected to arrive into Macedonia daily through its southern border with Greece in the coming months.
    In their search for a better life free of conflict and political instability, most of them intend to reach Germany, and to stay there.
    But the last leg on their journey before they get into the EU's Schengen passport-free zone is Serbia's border with Hungary, which Hungarian authorities reinforced by constructing a fence and wall, stepping up patrols, arresting hundreds who try crossing it on foot.
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