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3 migrants drown in attempt to transit through Macedonia

Xinhua, March 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three migrants, two men and one woman drowned in the waters of Suva Reka river near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija on Monday while attempting to cross.

According to information from the Macedonian interior ministry, they were part of a bigger migrant group that entered Macedonia illegally and were trying to transit the country. The surviving 23 migrants in this group were taken to the transition camp near Gevgelija where they received first health aid.

Many of the rivers in Macedonia are swollen due to heavy rain in the country over the past days. Still, migrants risk their lives trying to transit through Macedonia and continue towards Western Europe illegally, because the Balkan route which previously allowed them legal transit is now officially closed. Endit