Balázs Pethő said that two Austrian and two German officers had started working together with their Hungarian counterparts, checking on railway stations where trains to western Europe depart from.

According to figures from the national police, 231 illegal immigrants were detained in the past one day.

A sudden increase in the number of illegal entrants to Hungary was registered last autumn due to an influx of refugees from Kosovo.

For the whole of last year, the number of illegal entries totalled nearly 45,000, almost all of them reported from the Hungary-Serbia border. Since Jan. 1 the number has exceeded 25,000.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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