Hundreds gathered in northeast Greece on Sunday to rally against the security fence along the Turkish border. The protestors demanded the opening of safe routes for migrants. Some of the demonstrators, wearing life jackets as a symbol of the flow of people making the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece just two days after another 45 migrants died.

The march kicked off from the village of Kastanies, close to the Greek-Turkish border. The marchers were stopped just a few hundred meters away from the border fence that is located at a restricted-access military area.

They waved placards calling for the opening of borders. A group of Pakistani migrants carried a picture of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi.