Macedonian police drive back refugee crowd on Greek border

Source: Reuters

Macedonian police drove back crowds of migrants and refugees trying to enter from Greece on Friday after a night spent stranded in no-man's land by an emergency decree effectively sealing the Macedonian frontier.

A Reuters reporter said tear gas was fired and saw at least four bloodied migrants taken for treatment on the Greek side of the border.

Several thousand people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, many of them Syrian refugees, spent a cold night in no-man's land after Macedonia on Thursday declared a state of emergency and effectively blocked its southern frontier to migrants and refugees.

The flow into Macedonia had reached 1,500-2,000 per day in recent weeks, up from some 200 daily in May, leading to desperate scenes of crowds wrestling to board packed trains at a nearby railway station, children squeezed through open carriage windows.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/21/us-europe-migrants-macedonia-idUSKCN0QQ0ML20150821

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I'm not sure how much airtime the EU migrant situation is getting in the US, but it's really, really important.