EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA BORDER MORE Crowds push, shove and run as migrants try to board train from Macedonia

Record ID: 141708

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA BORDER MORE Crowds push, shove and run as migrants try to board train from Macedonia
  • Date: 7th September 2015
  • Summary: GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (SEPTEMBER 7, 2015) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING INSIDE CAMP MIGRANTS STANDING ON PLATFORM IN FRONT OF TRAIN MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS STANDING BEHIND WIRED FENCE WITH POLICEMEN MIGRANTS WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN VARIOUS OF MAN SHOUTING TO MIGRANTS FROM ATOP GATE MIGRANTS PASSING GATE, COMING TO PLATFORM TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS FALLING AND PUSHING FENCE ON GROUND, POLICEMEN HOLDING UP FENCE MIGRANTS WALKING AND FALLING TOWARDS TRAIN PLATFORM VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS TRAIN MIGRANTS TRYING TO BOARD TRAIN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS TRYING TO BREAK POLICE CORDON TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS PUSHING TO BOARD TRAIN MIGRANTS STANDING BY TRAIN MIGRANTS RUNNING TOWARDS TRAIN, POLICEMEN TRYING TO ESTABLISH LINE MIGRANTS RUNNING TOWARDS TRAIN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN WOMAN WAVING FROM DOORWAY MIGRANTS GETTING ON TRAIN TWO CHILDREN WAVING FROM DOORWAY VARIOUS OF MAN STANDING NEXT TO TRAIN CARRYING TWO CHILDREN WOMAN WATCHING FROM TRAIN WINDOW VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN CHILDREN SITTING ON GROUND WATCHING VARIOUS OF TRAIN LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7PXBWZY8P31Q9V57CFRKLZ3GD
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Large numbers of migrants struggled towards a train northwards from the Macedonia-Greece border on Monday (September 7).
    Crowds pushed against a wire fence and police lines in Gevgelija as they sought to carry on their journey north to western Europe from a provisional camp. Many had to stay behind in the hope of boarding a later train.
    The Macedonian government has organised trains twice a day to the north where migrants cross into Serbia on their way to Hungary, but numbers are becoming too much for the places available. Authorities have also on occasion laid on buses after the increase crossing over from neighbouring Greece.
    For most, the ultimate goal is Germany, where they hope they will be able to apply for asylum and build a better life.
    But the last leg on their journey before they get into the European Union's Schengen passport-free zone is Serbia's border with Hungary, which Hungarian authorities have reinforced by constructing a fence and stepping up patrols, arresting hundreds who try crossing it on foot.
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