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A clash between Macedonian police and migrants left up to forty people injured at the Macedonian-Greek border on Saturday.

A group of economic migrants not allowed to enter Macedonia from Greece attacked policemen by throwing stones and other objects.

Reports suggest that Macedonian police briefly entered Greece and fired stun grenades on the discontent migrants.

The Macedonian Army has begun erecting a wire fence along the country's border with Greece to control a wave of migrants trying to cross, local TV channel Telma reported on Saturday.

The fence is being built in the areas where 'economic migrants' have been stopped with Macedonia denying them entry, Telma said.

Migrants tried on Thursday to break into Macedonia from Greece, defying the tougher border restrictions imposed by the Macedonian authorities last week, newswires reported.

Iranian refugees at the village of Idomeni, on the border between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), have taken needles and threads and have sewed their mouths shut. They are refusing to eat and have the words “Iran” and “freedom” chiselled to their faces and chest. In their eyes there is sheer desperation.

Macedonia will do whatever is needed to prevent unauthorized crossing of its borders, the country's Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki has said.

The Macedonian authorities will take action to redirect migrants to border points where they can be properly registered, Poposki told foreign ambassadors in Skopje, according to MIA.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia  (FYROM) decision to build a border fence with Greece  in a bid to block refugees and migrants heading to Central Europe has created an “asphyxiating” condition at the refugee transit camp at Idomeni.

By Costas Kantouris

After a seven-month quest to escape war in Syria, Dia Kasam thought she and her two sons were finally on their way, headed by train into Serbia and from there on to Germany to reunite with her sick husband and their three other children.

Police in northern Greece say 93 Syrian migrants were released from locked cargo train carriage, after being tricked by smugglers into traveling in the wrong direction.