Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades Friday to drive back crowds of migrants and refugees gathered at Macedonia’s border with Greece, Reuters reports. Macedonia declared a state of emergency Thursday and sent troops to seal its norther and southern borders. The emergency declaration following weeks of chaos when as many as 2,000 migrants gathered daily at a Macedonian railroad station en route to the EU. A record 50,000 migrants arrived in Greece by way of boats from Turkey in July. Thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others are now in no-man’s land between Greece and Macedonia.
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