EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY SERBIA GATE Hungary closes main migrant crossing point from Serbia

Record ID: 139923

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY SERBIA GATE Hungary closes main migrant crossing point from Serbia
  • Date: 14th September 2015
  • Summary: NEAR ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) POLICE AND MEDIA NEAR BORDER FENCE VARIOUS OF WORKERS PUTTING UP FENCE POLICE OFFICERS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACK MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACK WORKERS AND POLICE OFFICERS NEAR FENCE, WORKERS PUTTING UP BARBED WIRE BARBED WIRE MIGRANTS AND POLICE OFFICERS MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACK POLICE OFFICERS STANDING ACROSS TRAIN TRACK NEAR HORGOS, SERBIA (SEPTEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS STANDING ON RAILWAY TRACK LEADING INTO HUNGARY / HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD VARIOUS OF HUNGARIAN POLICE OFFICERS STANDING ON RAILWAY TRACK GROUP OF MIGRANTS STANDING ON RAILWAY TRACK GIRL SITTING ON RAILWAY TRACK LITTLE GIRL STANDING ON RAILWAY TRACK HOLDING UP PINK TOWEL POLICE HELICOPTER FLYING ABOVE BORDER COLUMN OF MIGRANTS WALKING THROUGH FIELD MIGRANTS WITH CHILDREN AND PRAM WALKING THROUGH FIELD WORKERS PUTTING UP BORDER FENCE WOMAN SITTING ON RAILWAY TRACK HOLDING TWO CHILDREN AND WAILING BECAUSE HER DAUGHTER CROSSED THE BORDER BEFORE ITS CLOSING AID WORKER COMFORTING WOMAN SITTING ON RAILWAY TRACK WITH CHILDREN
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Serbia
  • Country: Serbia
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA2ZKWHJCWYDJI6K4N9WBD8CC3L
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hungary closed down the main migrant crossing point from Serbia on Monday (September 14), moving ahead with a crackdown on record numbers streaming into the European Union.
    Dozens of police officers in helmets took up position across a railway track that crosses the border and has been used for months by tens of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, to enter the EU from Serbia.
    Soldiers and mounted police were also present and a helicopter circled overhead.
    Hungarian police directed hundreds of migrants, including families with small children, to the official Horgos 2 border crossing around a kilometre away, but that too was blocked by a metal gate.
    Some were distressed as their family members had already gone through into Hungary, losing contact with them.
    The move came hours before new laws came into force giving authorities the power to arrest and jail anyone caught trying to cross Hungary's southern border from Serbia illegally, and to hold or expel asylum seekers.
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