Migrant Crisis - Migrants stranded in Greece Cross River to enter Macedonia Monday March 14,2016

Hundreds of migrants trapped in a squalid Greek camp are risking death by crossing a treacherous river in a desperate new attempt to get into Europe.

The perilous journey has already claimed the lives of three refugees including a pregnant woman whose bodies were pulled from the water near the Macedonia border on Monday March 14,2016

 

 

But just hours later, around 1,000 others including women, young children and even a person in a wheelchair trekked en masse for 6km towards the river after being told there was no fence on the other side.

Dramatic pictures show them using a rope and forming human chains to steady themselves against the current as they waded precariously through the water which has swollen after days of heavy rain.

 

The migrants then found a break in the border fence near the Greek village of Chamilo and crossed into Macedonia in the hope of heading further north to wealthier European countries such as Germany. 

Macedonia stopped allowing any migrants through last week, forcing them to take extreme measures to escape the muddy, disease-ridden camp near the northern Greek village of Idomeni where some 14,000 refugees are stranded