Refugees arriving in northern Greece face stretched reception capacity
Increasing numbers of desperate refugees are trying to reach Greece, not by crossing the Mediterranean but by travelling in the north from Turkey across the Evros River. Facilities to receive and support the refugees, many of them from Syria, are in short supply.
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