IDOMENI, Greece -- Thousands of people, including many
families with young children, are braving torrential downpours to cross
Greece's northern border with Macedonia, after Greek authorities managed
to register about 17,000 people on the island of Lesbos in the space of
a few days, allowing them to continue their journey north into Europe.
Greece's
caretaker government chartered two extra ferries and sent additional
staff to Lesbos to speed up the registration and ease overcrowding on
the island, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants had been living
in precarious conditions after arriving on dinghies from the nearby
Turkish coast.
About 7,000 people waited in
the mud of an open field near the northern village of Idomeni to cross
the Macedonian border early Thursday, with more arriving in trains,
buses and taxis.
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