Serbian Border Police Facing Increase in Syrian Migrants

“Serbian border police see huge increase in number of Syrian migrants,” from NBC’s Photo Blog:

Every year, the Serbian border police catch thousands of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere who are trying to reach Serbia illegally. In many cases they come from Turkey, through Greece to Macedonia and Serbia before they reach Hungary and, with it, the borderless Schengen travel zone. With chaos and conflict raging in Syria, last year saw a huge increase in the number of Syrians trying to enter the Western Balkans in search of asylum in the West.

Reuters photographer Marko Djurica recently spent some time following the story and was surprised by how the story impacted him…

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