Refugees in Greece camp seek escape route into FYROM [*]

More than a thousand refugees and migrants have left a camp near the northern Greek border after they tried to find a way around a border fence blocking their way into the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

The large group of refugees marched away on Monday from the tent city near Idomeni, where at least 12,000 people have been stranded in filthy conditions since FYROM [*] and other nations blocked their route north, along the so-called Western Balkan route.

Images from the border also showed hundreds of refugees wading through a narrow river stream to reach FYROM [*].

Later a second group of 500 refugees set off from Idomeni to follow them.

They were trying to find a gap in the barbed wire fence that FYROM [*] has built along its border to deter the refugees, many of whom come from war zones in Syria and Iraq.

They want to head north to wealthier European Union nations such as Germany.

Late on Monday, police in FYROM [*] said they will take steps to return the refugees to Greece.

"Police and army have heightened security on the border at critical points," the FYROM [*] police spokesperson said.

She said she believed "several hundred" people had crossed, lower than an estimate of 2,000 made by a Reuters photographer earlier...
 Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
14/3/16
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