MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to the Sky News channel, another 22 people tried to cross the river, with three of them later hospitalized.
The affected migrants' nationalities remain unconfirmed.
The accidents come after the closure of borders along the Western Balkan migrant route, what has resulted in more than 10,000 refugees being stranded in Greece at its border with Macedonia.
Undocumented migrants have been growing in numbers in Greece since February after European countries started adopting restrictive measures, such as daily limits on the number of people entering their territory, to curb the refugee influx.
Some 880,000 migrants used the Balkan route in 2015 to enter the European Union and 128,000 migrants entered the bloc through the Balkans in the first two months of 2016, according to European Council President Donald Tusk.
