Earlier reports have suggested that refugees are hastening to arrive in Hungary before the fence is completed.

In the southern part of Csongrád county alone a record high number of 1,628 refugees were caught on Friday, including 323 children. Authorities stopped 1,572 migrants on Saturday, including 280 children.

In one incident 83 refugees were ordered to get off a train bound for Munich at Gyõr on Saturday night.

Four people-smugglers were detained at the weekend. A Syrian man crammed 17 Syrians and 12 Iraqis in a Ford Transit van and another smuggler was carrying 22 refugees in his vehicle.

Criminal proceedings were launched against a man in Tura, Pest county who had agreed to take four Syrians from Szeged to Budapest for €200 each

In Budapest, the city’s third transit station for migrants opened on Podmaniczky utca in the Sixth District, close to Nyugati train station, on Friday.

Four mobile toilets and a container with shower booths and hand-washing facilities await migrants.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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