Refugees brave river crossing to Greece
As dawn breaks over the waterlogged plain along the border Greece shares with Turkey, an all-too familiar outline of refugees emerges through the morning haze, picking their way through a road well travelled by thousands before them.
Clothes and shoes left behind by refugees and migrants are scattered at a train stop in the village of Pythio.
A migrant who crossed the Evros river from Turkey to Greece, demonstrates his bruised arm in the village of Pythio.
Syrian refugee Hossam Eldin, 55, who crossed the Evros river with his family, prays at a train stop in the village of Pythio.
A Syrian refugee girl from Afrin, who crossed the Evros river, sleeps on a bench at a train station in the city of Orestiada.
A Syrian refugee family from Afrin, who crossed the Evros river, wait at a train station in the city of Orestiada.
Syrian refugee children from Afrin play with a dog at a train station in the city of Orestiada.
Syrian refugees from Afrin wait at a train station in the city of Orestiada.
Syrian refugee girl Zena is carried by a fellow refugee in the village of Pythio.
Syrian refugee Omar Walid (center), 25, from Aleppo who crossed the Evros river with a group of Syrians, discusses whether they should move forward or wait for the Greek police to arrive.
Syrian refugee Zamilla Ammal (right), 39, and four of her seven children, who crossed the Evros river, walk towards the village of Pythio.
Syrian refugee girl Zena rests in her mother Zamilla Ammal's arms after crossing the Evros river, near the village of Pythio.
A Syrian refugee who crossed the Evros river rests in a field as they wait for the police to arrive and transfer them to a first reception centre, near the village of Nea Vyssa.
Syrian refugee Ramadan from Afrin carries his one-month-old baby boy Abdu, after crossing the Evros river, in the village of Nea Vyssa.
A migrant girl plays near a window at a first reception centre for refugees and migrants near the village of Fylakio.
Refugees and migrants prepare to board a bus to Thessaloniki after leaving a first reception centre in the village of Fylakio.
A boy looks through a bus window as refugees and migrants who left a first reception centre board a bus to Thessaloniki, in the village of Fylakio.
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About thirty-five refugees from the besieged Syrian city of Afrin took a country road close to the community of Nea Vyssa early in the morning of May 2.
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Before the sea corridor between Turkey and Greek islands became a grave for hundreds of refugees in 2015, Evros had claimed at least 1,500 lives over the past 18 years.
Twelve deaths in the first quarter of the year have outpaced all of 2017 put together, when 8 people drowned, said associate professor of forensic medicine Pavlos Pavlidis.
"I can only hope the number stays there ... but we expect the worst has yet to come because the influx has risen," he told Reuters.
