EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA STATION MORE Trains in Macedonia fill with migrants bound for Serbia

Record ID: 142870

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA STATION MORE Trains in Macedonia fill with migrants bound for Serbia
  • Date: 23rd August 2015
  • Summary: GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (AUGUST 23, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING AT TRAIN STATION / POLICE STANDING MIGRANTS STANDING UP ON PLATFORM VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TO BOARD TRAIN BABY BEING PASSED BY MAN ON TO TRAIN (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM SYRIA, FIRAS, SAYING: JOURNALIST ASKING: "How do you feel today?" "So happy." GUARD HELPING MIGRANTS TO BOARD TRAIN GIRL BEING CARRIED HOLDING BOTTLE ANOTHER GIRL BEING HELD UP TO THE CAMERA CALLING FOR HER MOTHER BOY STANDING ON PLATFORM WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN / MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARD THE TRAIN (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM AFGHANISTAN, ASLAM, SAYING: "I think it was closed for three days. But now today we just came today from Athens and it was better." MIGRANTS WAITING TO BOARD TRAIN (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM AFGHANISTAN, ASLAM, SAYING: "I feel better, you know, coming from a war country and now I hope to live a good life and in a safe place, so I hope everything gets better, let's see what happens." BABY BEING HELD PLAYING WITH MOUTH VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING AT TRAIN STATION / POLICE STANDING VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TO BOARD TRAIN WOMAN IN WHITE SCARF BOARDING TRAIN WITH ASSISTANCE VARIOUS OF TRAIN LEAVING STATION
  • Embargoed: 7th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA43DOKXUP5OSCN45RY4Z0HN2A4
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  • Story Text: A steady stream of migrants crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday (August 23) after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation.
    Migrants boarded trains at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia on Sunday on their way north to Serbia.
    One migrant from Syria, Firas managed to board a train.
    "So happy," he said with a smile when asked how he felt.
    Another migrant, Aslam from Syria waited in Greece for the border to open, he said he was hopeful for his future.
    "I think it was closed for three days. But now today we just came today from Athens and it was better," he said.
    "I feel better, you know, coming from a war country and now I hope to live a good life and in a safe place, so I hope everything gets better, let's see what happens."
    Macedonia laid on extra trains and buses for the migrants to take them north to Serbia and the next step of a long journey from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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