Among those who illegally attempted to cross were individuals from Africa, Iran, Afghanistan and Syria. Greece responded by refusing to accept asylum applications for a month. As migrants tried to breach the border fence using tools, they also set fires, threw stones, and Molotov cocktail firebombs over to the Greek side and there are videos of Turkish security forces in uniform and plain-clothes, firing tear gas at Greek forces and a Turkish armored vehicle attempting to pull down the border fence by tugging on an attached cable. By 11 March, 348 people who illegally crossed the borders had been arrested and 44,353 cases of unlawful entry had been prevented. In May 2020, news emerged that Turkish forces captured a of Greek territory, Melissokomeio, as shown on maps of 1923, following a change in the flow of the Maritsa/Evros river. There are three border crossings: