THEGLOBEANDMAIL] Thousands of rain-soaked migrants on Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were maimed in the border festivities.The tumult started when police allowed a small group of migrants with young children to cross the frontier, and crowds in the back squeezed the migrants toward the shielded police wall. Many women, at least one pregnant, and children fell to the ground apparently fainting after squeezing past the cordon.
Then thousands of others, including women with babies and men carrying small children, grabbed their chance to run across a field not protected by barbed wire to enter Macedonia.
Police stun grenades did not to stop the rush.
At least 25 injured people were brought to a railway station in the Macedonian town of Gevgelija by fellow migrants. Many children lost contact with their parents in the chaos and desperately called for "mama, baba!"
Several hundred migrants, mostly elderly and children, remained on the Greek side of the border when police restored order.
It was the second day of festivities between the migrants and baton-wielding Macedonian police who are attempting to block them from heading north toward the European Union
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