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| Migrants charge through Macedonia fence on Greek border | Migrants charge through Macedonia fence on Greek border |
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| A crowd of migrants has burst through a barbed-wire fence on the Macedonia-Greece border using a steel pole as a battering ram. | A crowd of migrants has burst through a barbed-wire fence on the Macedonia-Greece border using a steel pole as a battering ram. |
| TV footage showed migrants pushing against the fence at Idomeni, ripping away barbed wire, as Macedonian police let off tear gas to force them away. | TV footage showed migrants pushing against the fence at Idomeni, ripping away barbed wire, as Macedonian police let off tear gas to force them away. |
| A section of fence was smashed open with the battering ram. It is not clear how many migrants got through. | A section of fence was smashed open with the battering ram. It is not clear how many migrants got through. |
| Many of those trying to reach northern Europe are Syrian and Iraqi refugees. | Many of those trying to reach northern Europe are Syrian and Iraqi refugees. |
| About 6,500 people are stuck on the Greek side of the border, as Macedonia is letting very few in. Many have been camping in squalid conditions for a week or more, with little food or medical help. | |
| Macedonia and some other Balkan countries have erected fences in an attempt to reduce the influx of migrants, after more than a million reached Germany last year. | |
| Greece is angry with Austria for having imposed a cap on migrant numbers. The crisis has left Greece shouldering much of the burden of housing migrants arriving in the EU from Turkey. | |
| Many are refugees fleeing war in the Middle East, while others are escaping human rights abuses in Afghanistan, Eritrea and other conflict zones. |