Photos: Syrian refugees' long journey to Europe

10 September 2015 - 08:19

News ID: 710084

Photos: Syrian refugees' long journey to Europe

Getty Images photographers Dan Kitwood and Win McNamee are documenting refugees' journey as they flee war in Syria and head towards safety in the European Union.

^{Hundreds of families walk the final few kilometres through fields from Idomeni in Greece towards the Macedonian border to have their papers processed}

^{A young Syrian woman waits to cross the border with her family after waiting for 20 hours in Idomeni}

^{People walk the final few kilometres from Idomeni in Greece towards the Macedonian border}

^{A young Syrian boy cries as his father carries him up a steep hill during their walk towards the Macedonian border}

^{A young Syrian boy with cerebral palsy is carried by his brother after his family crossed the Macedonian border from Greece}

^{Syrian refugees make a list of the people travelling in their group as they wait at a border crossing on the Greek-Macedonian border}

^{A Macedonian man sells water to migrants held inside a camp}

^{After crossing the Greek-Macedonian border and having their papers processed, people head out of a transit area towards Gevgelija train station to find transport north to the Serbian border}

^{A Macedonian border guard asks all Syrians to raise their hands shortly after they crossed the border from Greece}

^{Migrant and refugee families take a train from Gevgelija in Macedonia to the Serbian border}

^{Passengers pack into an overcrowded train from Gevgelija to the Serbian border}

^{Thousands of people wait in line with their bags for travel documents to be issued at a processing facility in Presevo, Serbia}

^{Travellers' bags are lined up at a Serbian processing facility in Presevo}

^{A young boy prays on a park bench in a public park near the train station in Belgrade}

^{Men wash themselves and draw drinking water in a park near the train station in BelgradeMen wash themselves and draw drinking water in a park near the train station in Belgrade}

^{Freshly washed clothes are left to dry on a shrub in a public park near the train station in Belgrade}

^{Syrian refugees check the GPS on their phones before they cross the Serbian border with Hungary}

^{Refugees cook corn they foraged from nearby fields as they rest near the Hungarian border in Horgas, Serbia}

^{Aid workers distribute food to migrants at a transition camp in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia}

^{An aid worker distributes bread and supplies to migrants and refugees at a transition camp in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia}

^{People wrap themselves in blankets to keep warm at a collection point in Morahalom, Hungary}

^{People who had crossed the Serbian border into Hungary keep warm by a fire as dawn breaks at a collection point in Morahalom}

^{Children who had crossed from Serbia into Hungary wait for buses to take them to a refugee camp}

^{A young Syrian girl sits on the floor of the bus station in Belgrade, where she temporarily lives with her mother, father and baby sister}

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