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Greece placed its borders on maximum security footing on Sunday after hundreds of migrants used porous crossing points to enter the country from Turkey, with thousands behind them seeking entry after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement.

Police say at least 500 people had arrived by sea on three Greek islands close to the Turkish coast within a few hours on Sunday morning.used porous crossing points to enter the country from Turkey, with thousands behind them seeking entry after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement.

On the mainland further north, migrants waded across a river to the Greek side at Kastanies. Reuters reporters saw groups of up to 30, including an Afghan mother with a five-day-old infant, on the side of a road, having forded the river hours earlier. Turkey’s turnabout came after an air strike killed 33 Turkish soldiers in neighbouring northwest Syria, where Ankara has deployed forces to help secure its border against a new influx of refugees from the Syrian civil war.

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