MILAN: Police in North Macedonia said 161 migrants were stopped overnight trying to enter illegally from Greece.
In a statement, police said the migrants were discovered in the south of the country by local police and officers from other European countries who are helping patrol North Macedonia’s borders.
They were said to be nationals of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea and had been travelling in four groups.
The migrants were taken to a detention center in the southern town of Gevgelija pending deportation to Greece.
Despite a series of border closures in early 2016, migrants trapped in Greece after entering illegally from Turkey still try to head north through the Balkans to Europe’s prosperous heartland.
