Two
desperate men yesterday attempted to hang themselves in a square in the
centre of Athens as frustrations grew with border closures that have
stopped people leaving. One
of the men, a Pakistani, was left unconscious after tying a noose made
from twisted lengths of fabric to a tree and was taken to hospital. Photos after the cut.
Meanwhile, Greece
has warned it would not be turned into ‘warehouse of souls’ by the rest
of the Europe after tens of thousands of migrants were left trapped in
the country.
At a makeshift migrant camp in one of the capital’s suburbs, hundreds queued for food.
Greek
officials estimate 20,000 migrants have been stranded there after
neighbouring Macedonia abruptly shut its border on Monday to anyone not
Syrian or Iraqi.
With all migrant centres full, Greek authorities have started using stadiums as temporary accommodation.
The
UN’s refugee agency yesterday announced it is looking to lease entire
hotels with hundreds of rooms for at least nine months.
More
than 800,000 people last year arrived from Turkey on the Greek islands,
where they got boats to Athens and then headed to the Balkans and
continued their journeys up through Europe.
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