Greek police step up evacuation of squalid migrant camp

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

A police source told Agence France-Presse 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 (50 miles) to the south.