Hundreds Spend Night At Hungary’s Röszke Registration Point
- 7 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
Around 500 migrants spent the night at the registration point at Röszke, on the southern border, public news channel M1 reported. Lines of tents around the registration point were interspersed with camp fires, and migrants who did not have tents spent the “very cold” night on the ground in blankets or sleeping bags, M1’s correspondent reported. Most migrants asked volunteers for blankets and sleeping bags, as well as medical aid, since many children had fevers due to the recent cold snap.
The correspondent said many were coughing. Ever since sunrise, more and more migrants arrived at the registration point.
Police were constantly taking new migrants to the new registration point which opened at the weekend, as well as to the original one.
Meanwhile, a group of migrants tried to leave a registration area near Röszke border station in the south, but were contained by police.
A group of 30-40 men, thought to be Afghan nationals, became tired of waiting and attempted to leave, but they were stopped by police, M1’s correspondent said from the site.
The men were isolated. No tear gas or batons were used. The men were chanting “Freedom!” and “No camp!”
Some 500 people spent the night altogether at the registration area.
They were to be transported by buses to a refugee camp.
Meanwhile, in the north-western village of Vámosszabadi, near the site of a refugee camp, a group of migrants were seen walking towards the city of Győr under police escort.
They had been transported to the camp from Röszke earlier, but they did not enter the camp.
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