Bleakness is being so depressed about your situation you hang yourself. The situation in Greece has turned so desperate that migrants are doing just that to end it. Tens of thousands of migrants were trapped in Greece after its neighbouring countries closed their boarders and Greece has warned that it would not be turned into a ‘warehouse of souls’.
Yesterday, two men attempted to hang themselves in a square in the centre of Athens. One of the men, a Pakistani, was left unconscious after tying a noose made from twisted material to a tree.
The UN’s refugee agency yesterday announced it is looking to lease entire hotels with hundreds of rooms for at least nine months.
More than 800,000 people last year arrived from Turkey on the Greek islands, where they got boats to Athens and then headed to the Balkans and continued their journeys up through Europe.
For more photographs of the dire situation, check here.
[source: dailymail]
