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Thessaloniki / AFP
Greek police on Tuesday cleared two more improvised migrant camps near its border with Macedonia, moving occupants to state-run facilities, officials said.
Police in Greece’s second largest city Thessaloniki said the operation was ongoing in the makeshift camps, which had formed around a highway motel and a nearby petrol station. Many of the migrants are from Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, local police said.
According to government statistics there are around 1,900 migrants in the two camps near the border with Macedonia. On Monday, over a thousand people were relocated from another makeshift camp set up around another filling station about 20 kmfrom the frontier.
The three improvised camps had swelled after officials moved some 4,000 people away from the sprawling tent city of Idomeni, on the Macedonian border. The camp closures are part of a strategy to prevent a buildup of migrants.