Macedonia detains more than 100 illegal immigrants from Syria, Iraq
 

Macedonian authorities have detained more than 100 illegal immigrants, mostly from Syria and Iraq, who were found hiding in a train carrying coal from neighboring Greece, the interior ministry said on Monday. *** The immigrants were discovered late on Sunday in Veles, a town in central Macedonia. *** "It was difficult to communicate with most of them, they didn't k**w where they are, where they are coming from or where they were going," said interior ministry spokesman Ivo Koteski. * **He said information police had managed to gather suggested they had crossed into Turkey from neighboring Syria and Iraq and were then smuggled into Greece. From there they were supposed to travel through Macedonia into Serbia before continuing towards Western Europe.

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