Гърция: 'Помогнете ни', плачат бежанците след сблъсъците с Македонската полиция

Macedonian police fired stun grenades at refugees stuck in a buffer zone at the border between Macedonia and Greece during clashes near Idomeni on Friday. People reportedly threw stones at the Macedonian police and tried to break through the barricades installed at the border. Several people were injured in the clashes including a young boy. Medical staff from the Doctors Without Borders organisation arrived at the scene shortly afterwards. The Macedonian army has been mobilised to block thousands of asylum seekers and refugees trying to cross into the country from Greece. Some 3,000 refugees are currently living in the buffer zone between the two nations. People are sleeping out in the open as they wait, in the hope that Macedonia will open its border. The crisis comes as the Macedonian government, on August 20, declared a state of emergency in two border regions to tackle the growing refugee crisis. The move permits the army to be deployed to manage the situation. Up to 44,000 people have reportedly travelled through Macedonia in the past two months alone. Migrants rarely apply for asylum in Macedonia, instead passing through the country on their way to northern European nations like Germany and Sweden. Greece alone has received, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) figures, 124,000 migrants this year, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, with 50,000 people arriving in July alone.