EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA STATION Migrants relieved to reach Macedonian railway station after being let through border

Record ID: 143136

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MACEDONIA STATION Migrants relieved to reach Macedonian railway station after being let through border
  • Date: 21st August 2015
  • Summary: GEVGELIJA, MACEDONIA (AUGUST 21, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG RAILWAY TRACKS MAN SHOWING "V" SIGN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS ARRIVING AT RAILWAY STATION (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM ALEPPO, HUSSA ,SAYING: "Now all the people, they told us that all the people will enter to Macedonia and all the people there are happy now. We have families, we have pregna
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  • Story Text: Hundreds of migrants and refugees streamed into Macedonia from Greece on Friday (August 21) , hours after police fired tear gas to drive them back having sealed the frontier under an emergency decree.
    "They told us that all the people will enter to Macedonia and all the people there are happy now. We have families, we have pregnant women, they were bleeding and it was really bad situation for all for two or three day," one migrant from Aleppo in Syria, Hussa, said.
    Migrants flooded Gevgelija train station waiting for trains which should take them to the northern border where they would cross into Serbia.
    From Serbia, migrants are aiming to reach Hungary, but for many, the ultimate goal is to get into Germany.
    "Now I want to buy train to the border of Serbia, and next go to Serbia and Hungary and next Germany or Autriche [Austria] to be there," one migrant from Afghanistan, Ahmad, said.
    Earlier in the day, at least 1,000 migrants and refugees pressed against Macedonian police lines on the Greek-Macedonian border and at least 10 people appeared to faint in the crush.
    People could be heard screaming and medical workers raced to treat those who passed out or were hurt. The crush ensued after police let several hundred through into Macedonia, having kept them out since Thursday (August 20) under an emergency decree.
    Macedonia is allowing migrants to enter from Greece in numbers that the country can provide transport and care for, an interior ministry spokesman said on Friday after hundreds streamed across the border.
    Police had sealed the border to thousands of migrants and refugees, but spokesman Ivo Kotevski told Reuters: "We are allowing entry to a number that matches our capacity to transport them or to give them appropriate medical care and treatment."
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