Police use teargas on migrants at Greek border

Teargas was fired on a crowd of more than 500 people.

April 10, 2016 04:44 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 04:28 am IST - Athens

Macedonian police used teargas to push back hundreds of migrants from a border fence on Sunday at a sprawling refugee camp on the Greek border, a Reuters witness said.

Teargas was fired on a crowd of more than 500 people who had gathered at the frontier at the makeshift camp of Idomeni. A Greek police source said there was “tension” in the area but declined to comment further.

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