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Syrian medical student: I got used to bombs at college

A record number of migrants arrived at the European Union's borders last month. People hoping to travel on to northern Europe have been congregating in border towns on the edge of the continent, with many of them coming through the Balkans. Macedonia saw 45,000 illegal border crossings there in the first three months of the year. Chris Buckler reports from the border town of Gevjelija where hundreds of people are hoping to take trains to the north of the country and then continue on to the European Union.

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