Aerial photos show huge tent city in the northern Greek village of Idomeni on Macedonian border

With scores of tents pitched close together on a muddy field and snaking queues of people waiting in line for food, you could be forgiven for thinking these aerial photos show a music festival in full swing.

But, instead of showing the likes of Glastonbury, these bird's-eye view photographs actually show a makeshift migrant camp which has sprung up in the northern Greek village of Idomeni, near the Macedonian border.

At least 10,000 men, women and children have been camped for days in the squalid conditions at the Idomeni border crossing, with hundreds more arriving every single day.

The first two refugee camps are now so full that thousands have set up tents in fields nearby, living in appalling conditions. 

Hundreds have been seen queuing for hundreds of yards as they desperately wait to receive food distributed by a non-governmental organisation.

The fields on the outskirts of this Greek border town have become the flashpoint in Europe's massive refugee crisis, the size of which the continent has not seen since the Second World War. 

Greek police said that in the 24 hours to 6am on Thursday March 03,2016, 500 people were allowed to cross the border to Macedonia. Some of those, however, were then turned back by Macedonian authorities who said their papers were not in order.

The migrants said Macedonia did not accept computer-generated stamps issued by the Greek police, and therefore they could not prove their identity documents are genuine. 

Macedonian authorities have now set up a 19-mile barbed wire boundary, with parallel lines of 8ft fencing keeping thousands of migrants trapped in Greece. Only a narrow passage has been left in a bid to control migration flow, with officials growing increasingly stringent