PHOTOS Of Refugee Crisis That Are Painful To Watch

Thousands try to escape troubled regions in Africa and Middle East and in hope of finding better lives in Europe but many of them find their death instead.

The refugees live in horrendous conditions in Europe.

World migrant crisis claims many lives each day. Thousands refugees try to get to Europe from their troubled homelands in search of better lives – but many of them find their graves instead.

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Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after two boats carrying at least 500 migrants capsized off Libya shores early on Thursday.

Overloaded boats often capsize. Lucky are those few who survive.

The victims included refugees from Syria, Bangladesh and several sub-Saharan African countries.

These refugees were lucky enough to reach the European shore.

So far rescuers recovered more than 80 bodies from the water.

But many find their death in Mediterranean. Rescuers work in the biological protection suits because they are afraid of Ebola outbreaks and other dangerous diseases.

200 more people were lucky enough to survive and were saved. Still, more than two hundred are still missing.

50 decomposing refugees’ bodies have been found in abandoned lorry in Austria.

Meanwhile 50 migrants’ bodies – men, women and children, were found today in an abandoned lorry in Austria. The authorities investigating this horrendous case came to a conclusion that by the time when vehicle crossed he Austrian border the victims were probably already dead. The cause of their death is yet to be established.

Thousands try to break at the Macedonian borders with Greece confronted by riot police.

At the same time, on Thursday Macedonia declared a state of emergency after hundreds of migrants have rushed at Macedonian border forces in an attempt to leave Greece.

Riot police holds back crowds of refugees.

Riot police beat back the migrants, men, women and children mercilessly with batons and shields. Many people were injured, some of them critically.

Child frightened by tough policemen

“Macedonian authorities are responding as if they were dealing with rioters rather than refugees who have fled conflict and persecution,” told the press Amnesty International deputy Europe director Gauri van Gulik, speaking on that outrageous issue.

Razor wire has been rolled across the Macedonian frontier to prevent people from entering.

More than 44,000 refugees have travelled through Macedonia in the past two months. To prevent migrants from entering razor wire has been rolled but it didn’t help much.

Razor wire can’t stop the migrants.

Thousands refugees have been stuck at the border.

Thousands refugees have been stuck at the border.

However, Macedonia had to re-open its border with Greece after migrant crisis at the border worsened to an extreme level.

Migrant crisis worsened every day and Macedonia had to open its borders again.

The death toll for migrants from Nigeria and other African countries drowned in Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2015 is already worse than the death toll for Titanic catastrophe. More than 1500 people have found their death in its waters since January, comparing with 96 for the same period of time in 2014.

 

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