More than 5,000 refugees have been able to board trains and buses to Serbia and northern Europe, ending their ordeal in makeshift camps on the border between Greece and Macedonia. Some of the people - mainly from Syria, but also from other countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan - have spent days in the open with little or no food after Macedonia declared a state of emergency and closed its borders to them. Also on Saturday night thousands had managed to get through to the town of Gevgelija, where trains were waiting to take them to Serbia.
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