Migrants rush past Macedonia police at Greece border

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>About 2&comma;000 migrants have rushed past baton-wielding police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece and several people were injured in the commotion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The tumult started when police decided to allow a small group of migrants with young children to cross the frontier and crowds in the back squeezed them towards the shielded police wall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many women&comma; at least one pregnant&comma; and children fell to the ground apparently fainting after squeezing past the cordon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then&comma; thousands of others used the moment to run across a field not protected by barbed wire to enter Macedonia&period; Police fired stun grenades but did not manage to stop the rush&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were no immediate reports of the number and extent of injuries&period; Several children also lost their parents in the chaos and were left shouting &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mama&comma; baba”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was the second day of clashes between the migrants and Macedonian police who are attempting to block them from heading north towards the European Union&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;image81&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;image81&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Migrant Crisis" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78566" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Friday&comma; police fired stun grenades and clashed with the migrants who tried to rush over the border&comma; a day after Macedonia’s government declared a state of emergency on the frontier to stop the human tide&period; At least 10 people were injured in the melee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both Greece and Macedonia have seen an unprecedented wave of migrants this year&comma; most fleeing wars in Syria&comma; Afghanistan or Iraq&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 160&comma;000 have arrived so far in Greece&comma; mostly crossing in inflatable dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast – an influx that has overwhelmed Greek authorities and the country’s small Aegean islands&period; Some 45&comma;000 crossed through Macedonia over the past two months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Few&comma; if any&comma; of the migrants want to remain in Greece&comma; which is in the grip of a financial crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most head straight to the country’s northern border with Macedonia&comma; where they cram on to trains and head north through Serbia and Hungary on their way to the more prosperous EU countries such as Germany&comma; 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