Macedonia Migrants

 

Macedonia has become a major transit point for migrants trying to reach northern EU members.

 

Some 44,000 people have reportedly travelled through Macedonia in the past two months

On the platform of Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, people wait for a train, hoping to enter the EU

 

 

 

Migrants wait to cross the Macedonian-Greek border near the town of Gevgelija on August 20, 2015. 

Macedonian special police forces arrived this morning and blocked the illegal border crossing between Macedonia and Greece.'Government of Macedonia has declared the state of emergency in the region of country's southern and northern border 

 Riot police have been deployed to the area by Macedonian authorities

Migrants hold up an injured individual after clashes with Macedonian police near the town of Idomeni on the Greek -Macedonian border on August 21, 2015. 

Macedonian police have reinforced control at the border with Greece in a bid to stop the influx of migrants, but a few hundred Syrians managed to cross the frontier overnight into August 21,2015

 Police prevented reporters to access a no-man's land where on August 20, officers had been in a standoff with about 1,500 migrants and refugees who wanted to cross into Macedonia 

 Police block the way as migrants and refugee families try to cross the Macedonian-Greek border near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia, on Aug. 21, 2015.

 

Macedonian police officers let migrant families with children enter Macedonia at the railway tracks on the border with Greece, near Gevgelija, Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.

 
A woman with a child enters Macedonia, passing the police blockade set at the railway tracks on the border with Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.

 

Syrian refugees and other migrants are stopped by Macedonian police at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, August 22, 2015. Crowds of migrants and refugees were building on Greece's border with Macedonia on Saturday after a cold, wet night spent in the open, their entry slowly rationed by Macedonian police and soldiers.