Refugees Flow Through Hungarian Border Towards Szeged
- 26 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
Serbian authorities transported 150 bus loads of illegal immigrants from Belgrade to the Hungarian border in two days as the first of the refugees who were stopped at the Greek-Macedonian border for days last week, arrived at the Serbia-Hungary border. The refugees gather at a collection point in Serbia then follow railway tracks to arrive in Hungary near Röszke.
No fence nor barbed wire blocks their entry into Hungary along the tracks.
Serbian police officers tell the migrants which direction to take a few hundred metres before the Hungarian border, Népszabadság writes.
State news channel M1 reported Tuesday evening that hundreds of people were taken to a hangar by police near Röszke, where their data are registered.
Many are then taken away in cars after parting with hundreds of euros, according to M1 television.
An estimated 7,000-8,000 refugees arrive in Serbia every day.
Police and border guards stopped 1,930 of them in the southern part of Csongrád county on Monday.
A New York Times report quotes Syrian, Afghan and other refugees as saying that they have “accelerated their race to the north” before the entire Hungary-Serbia border is sealed off on August 31.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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