A refugee mom said her children are begging to return to war-torn Syria rather than endure conditions in a squalid camp in a small Greek village, NBC News reported.
Fatima Ahmad and her family trekked through Turkey and Greece, ending in the disease-ridden Idomeni camp that has sprung up next to the closed border crossing with Macedonia.
The mother-of-five is trying to reunite with her 13-year-old son, Iham, who is already in Frankfurt, Germany.
Fatima's daughter Arwa, 9, last week became the camp's first confirmed case of Hepatitis A.
"Help me, please … take me out of this place," she said. Syria is "better than this place."
More than one million migrants and refugees flowed into Europe in 2015 — and already 153,500 have arrived by sea this year.
