More than 300 migrants treated for injuries after police used teargas, stun grenades and plastic bullets to drive back people from border fence Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired teargas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, aid workers said, in an act condemned by Greece as “dangerous and deplorable”. More than 10,000 migrants and refugees have been stranded at the Greek border outpost of Idomeni since February after a cascade of border shutdowns across the Balkans closed off their route to central and western Europe. An earlier attempt by a large group of migrants to cross the border fence had resulted in the confrontation, a Macedonian official said. Continue reading...
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