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Short-lived calm in Macedonia's refugee rush

Refugees board a train bound for Serbia at the makeshift station south of Gevgelija near Macedonia's border with Greece Marc Perry/IRIN

Macedonia's sleepy border town of Gevgelija is still receiving as many as 8,000 migrants and refugees a day, but following the hasty construction of a temporary holding camp just outside town, the refugees are now directed away from the train station.

IRIN reports on a relatively ordered system at the border that proved short-lived.

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