Greek police step up evacuation of Idomeni migrant camp

Greek police restarted an operation on Wednesday to move migrants out of Idomeni, the squalid tent city where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived for months.

A police source said they hoped to transfer "roughly the same number" of migrants as on Tuesday, when they bussed more than 2,000 to newly opened camps near Greece's second city Thessaloniki, about 80 kilometers to the south.

Some 8,400 people are living in the muddy and dirty camp on the Macedonian border, which has become a potent symbol of human suffering and chaos as Europe struggles with its worst migrant crisis since World War II.