Thousands of migrants were left stranded in Greece Monday after Macedonia abruptly closed it border to Afghans, creating a fresh bottleneck as European countries scramble to respond to the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Overall, some 8,000 people were trapped on Greece's northern frontier and at the port of Piraeus after Macedonia introduced the measure on Sunday in a bid to stem an unrelenting influx of migrants.
Desperate to get through, hundreds of Afghans staged a sit-down protest in an area of no-man's land and occupied the railway line connecting the two countries, holding makeshift signs that read: "We can't go back" and "Why racism?"