About 2000 migrants rush past police into Macedonia - KXXV-TV News Channel 25 ... - KXXV News Channel 25
Associated Press GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (AP) - Thousands of rain-soaked migrants on Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were injured in the border clashes. By the end of the day, every one got across, including several hundred migrants, mostly elderly and children, who had remained on the Greek side of the border. The tumult started when police allowed a small group of migrants with young children to cross the frontier, and crowds in the back squeezed the migrants toward the shielded police wall. Then thousands of others, including women with babies and men carrying small children, grabbed their chance to climb over razor wire or run across a field not protected by the fence to enter Macedonia. Police stun grenades did not to stop the rush, but many fleeing migrants were chased down by policemen and severely kicked or beaten with batons. It was the second day of clashes between the migrants and baton-wielding police who are attempting to block them from heading toward the European Union. On Friday, police fired stun grenades and clashed with the migrants, a day after Macedonia's government declared a state of emergency on the frontier to stop the human tide. Source: www.kxxv.com
