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World Service,3 mins

Aboard the decrepit refugee 'cattle cars'

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Leesteffy Jenkins, a bakery owner from Massachusetts, used her vacation days last month to volunteer at a refugee transit camp in Gevgelija, Macedonia. While there, she managed to slip aboard one of the decrepit trains that takes migrants from Macedonia to Serbia, and this is what she saw. Image: A migrant boards a train after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border, near Gevgelija, on December 1, 2015. Credit: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

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