Syrian Refugee Gives Birth On Train Tracks
3/27/2016 11:53:01 AM
A 24-year-old Syrian woman has given birth to a girl at the sprawling Greek migrant encampment in Idomeni, near the border with Macedonia.
The birth, in a tent lying on the railway tracks, was assisted by volunteers from the aid group Doctors of the World. The woman has two other children.
More than 11,500 migrants and refugees are still at the makeshift camp, even though Macedonia has shut its border to them, as have other Balkan countries along what used to be the refugees main route to central Europe.
Efforts continue to relocate the migrants to so-called "transit centers" across Greece. The Greek government wants to empty the Idomeni encampment by next month, but has ruled out using coercive measures.
The birth, in a tent lying on the railway tracks, was assisted by volunteers from the aid group Doctors of the World. The woman has two other children.
More than 11,500 migrants and refugees are still at the makeshift camp, even though Macedonia has shut its border to them, as have other Balkan countries along what used to be the refugees main route to central Europe.
Efforts continue to relocate the migrants to so-called "transit centers" across Greece. The Greek government wants to empty the Idomeni encampment by next month, but has ruled out using coercive measures.