Migrants At Budapest Keleti Station Number 2,000
- 10 Sep 2015 4:58 AM
By Thursday morning the number of migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti railway station has reached 2,000, Tibor Lakatos, a senior officer of the national police, told the press. Lakatos said the police were working to direct the illegal migrants to reception points of the immigration office. Lakatos said that some 1,000 police officers were working along the Hungary-Serbia border in the south.
He said that since January this year, nearly 176,000 illegal entries had been reported, and proceedings had been initiated against 1,014 people smugglers.
On Wednesday alone, 3,000 immigrants crossed the border illegally.
Attila Kiss, deputy head of the immigration authority, said that immigrants had filed a total 161,884 asylum applications this year.
He added that 2,030 immigrants were currently staying at reception centres.
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