Subfreezing temperatures and snow have settled in over Central Europe, adding to the difficulties of migrants heading to Western Europe but not deterring them from continuing their journeys.
A migrant wrapped in a blanket waits with other migrants and refugees for a bus at a registration camp in southern Serbian town of Presevo on January 20, 2016, as temperature fall to minus 15 Celsius. (AFP/DIMITAR DILKOFF)
Liene Veide, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency, says around 2,000 migrants continue to cross from Macedonia into Serbia daily, even with temperatures plunging to a low of -19 (-2 F) Wednesday.
She says many arrive without clothing or boots appropriate for the winter weather, and that some have pneumonia, fever or other illnesses. Still, she says, most refuse hospitalization and insist on pressing on with their journeys.
Temperatures plunged overnight Wednesday in Romania to the lowest of the year, with -29.5 C (-21 F) recorded in one town in central Romania.
— AP
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