ATHENS – Macedonian police have deployed tear gas and stun grenades to push back hundreds of migrants attempting to cross the Greek-Macedonian, Greek media said on Sunday.

Up to 200 migrants reportedly from the makeshift camp of Idomeni attempted to cross the border after gathering on a railway line.

Migrants at Idomeni refugee camp are demanding that the border with Macedonia be opened, but no migrants have been allowed through for weeks.

More than 10,000 migrants and refugees have been living there since February, when Macedonia closed its border with Greece to incoming migrants.

Macedonia followed the move of other countries along the Balkan route who had also closed their borders; including Serbia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria.

More than a million people fleeing conflict poured into Europe mainly through Greece in the past year.

The European Union is implementing an accord under which all new arrivals to Greece will be sent back to Turkey if they don’t meet asylum criteria.

– TiVi Tuan-san