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Refugees living in freezing warehouses in Serbia

2/20/2017
Refugees in the warehouses behind Belgrade station face sub-zero temperatures – and stave off the bone-chilling cold by burning scrapped railway sleepers around the clock, which generate perpetual clouds of toxic smoke.

‘Sometimes I can’t feel my legs at night, but still I try to sleep,’ said one refugee, according to the UNHCR.
Gritty Pictures Show Refugee Life in Abandoned WarehousesAn Afghan refugee prays in freezing conditions in Belgrade. ; In derelict warehouses behind Belgrade's main train station, 1,200 male refugees are sleeping homeless in the freezing cold with temperatures dropping to -20C at night. Among them are around 300 unaccompanied minors. They are living in abandoned buildings, cars and railway carriages, lighting fires to keep warm. The buildings where they are squatting are filled with thick smoke from the fires. UNHCR is deeply concerned about their welfare, with reports of mistreatment by police and authorities and refugees being pushed back when trying to cross the border. Some 7,000 refugees (85 per cent of those stranded in Belgrade) were living in heated government shelters, as of late January 2017.
(Picture: Daniel Etter / UNHCR)
Gritty Pictures Show Refugee Life in Abandoned WarehousesWalid, a Pakistani migrant, tries to keep warm around a fire in freezing conditions in Belgrade. ; In derelict warehouses behind Belgrade's main train station, 1,200 male refugees are sleeping homeless in the freezing cold with temperatures dropping to -20C at night. Among them are around 300 unaccompanied minors. They are living in abandoned buildings, cars and railway carriages, lighting fires to keep warm. The buildings where they are squatting are filled with thick smoke from the fires. UNHCR is deeply concerned about their welfare, with reports of mistreatment by police and authorities and refugees being pushed back when trying to cross the border. Some 7,000 refugees (85 per cent of those stranded in Belgrade) were living in heated government shelters, as of late January 2017.
(Picture: Daniel Etter / UNHCR)
The United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR are now trying to locate refugees into a new heated shelter provided by the government outside Belgrade.
‘I had to leave, it was so cold and so dirty there,’ said Kiramat Safi, a 17-year-old unaccompanied child from Afghanistan, who after four months outside volunteered to leave the warehouses and move into another nearby shelter, Krnjaca, last week.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/heartbreaking-photos-show-refugees-living-in-freezing-warehouses-in-serbia-6460239/

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