Inception
The camp, which sprung up on what began as an informal pedestrian border crossing for refugees heading north to Europe, is home to an estimated 8,400 people. More than 54,000 refugees and migrants have been trapped in financially struggling Greece since Balkan and European countries shut their land borders to a massive flow of people escaping war and poverty at home. The vast majority are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

A migrant family carries their belongings during the evacuation operation by police forces of a makeshift migrant camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni yesterday. Pic/AFP