Migrants stream into Macedonia unchecked

Hundreds of migrants crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to Western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation.

Riot police remained, but did little to slow the steady stream of migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war and other conflicts in the Middle East.

Macedonia had declared a state of emergency on Thursday and sealed its southern border to migrants pouring in at a rate of 2,000 per day en route to Serbia, then Hungary and the European Union's borderless Schengen Area.