Greece starts emptying FYROM [*] border camp as new arrivals slow

Greece said Saturday it has begun emptying the main migrant "camp" on its FYROM [*] border, as the huge tide of refugees flooding into the country slows to a trickle following the EU-Turkey deal.

Eight buses transported around 400 refugees from the Idomeni camp  Friday, while a dozen more buses were waiting for migrants so far reluctant to leave the border, shut down earlier this month.

Those persuaded to board the first buses were mainly parents with children who can no longer tolerate the difficult conditions in the squalid camp.

Janger Hassan, 29, from Iraqi Kurdistan, who has been at the Idomeni camp for a month with his wife and two young children, thinks he will probably leave.

"There's nothing to do here. The children are getting sick. It's a bad situation the last two days it's windy, sometimes it's raining here," he told AFP.

"We don't have a choice. We have to move," he said...etc...
  [i24news.tv]
 26/3/16
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