Some 7,600 migrants entered Macedonia in last 12 hours: Report

AFP , Friday 11 Sep 2015

Around 7,600 migrants entered Macedonia in just 12 hours overnight -- a record according to a UN official quoted by Macedonia's state news agency Friday.

"Around 7,600 migrants, mostly from Syria, entered Macedonia between 6:00 pm Thursday and 6:00 am today," Alexandra Krause of the UNHCR refugee agency told MIA. "We have information from our Greek colleagues that more migrants are travelling towards the Macedonian border in buses," she added.

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