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Stranded Migrants Brave Bitter Cold in Serbian Warehouses
According to the latest figures, around 7,000 migrants are stranded in Serbia waiting for a chance to move forward toward the EU.
Migrants wait to receive free food during a snowfall outside a warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia on Jan. 9, 2017.
Several hundred men, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, remained in an abandoned customs warehouse, where aid organizations distributed heaters, blankets, clothes and food in an attempt to keep them warm as temperatures dropped to 5 Fahrenheit.
Migrants stand in line to receive free food outside the customs warehouse on Jan. 9.
Some 7,000 migrants from Asia and the Middle East are stranded in Serbia. Refugee camps are packed and only women and children are likely to be let into them, leaving the men to seek shelter where they can - in abandoned warehouses in central Belgrade, or the fields just south of the border.
A migrant carries a railroad tie on Jan. 9.
The migrants are waiting their turn to try to enter Hungary, but Hungary has made clear that it does not welcome migrants. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has fortified the border, an external frontier of the European Union, with a razor wire fence, and thousands of police and soldiers patrol the area with heat-sensitive cameras and helicopters.
But still the migrants come.
