EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER Migrants board buses to travel from Hungary to Austria

Record ID: 141058

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER Migrants board buses to travel from Hungary to Austria
  • Date: 14th September 2015
  • Summary: ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS WITH SNIFFER DOGS AT BORDER FENCE ARMED SOLDIERS PATROLLING THE FENCE SOLDIER IN ARMOURED VEHICLE SOLDIERS AND MILITARY VEHICLES POLICE STANDING AT BORDER FENCE MIGRANTS CROSSING BORDER MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG RAILWAY TRACK AT BORDER SOLDIERS WATCHING MIGRANTS CROSS BORDER MEN CARRYING CHILDREN ON SHOULDERS AS THEY CROSS BORDER MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG RAILWAY TRACK AT BORDER MAN CARRYING BABY MIGRANT BOARDING BUS SYRIAN MAN WITH WIFE AND CHILD SPEAKING TO HUNGARIAN POLICEMEN BEFORE BOARDING BUS (SOUNDBITE) (English), UNIDENTIFIED SYRIAN REFUGEE, ASKING: "Where goes this bus?" HUNGARIAN POLICEMAN, ANSWERING: "Come, you are going to Austria, go." MIGRANTS BOARDING BUS
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA6BFFWJ99TGGTX58DMT8SGOJV0
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The transit camp on the Hungarian border with Serbia was almost empty on Monday morning (September 14), after all of the newly-arrived migrants were put onto buses to be taken straight to the Austrian border, police said.
    Hungarian police cleared the camp in the border town of Roszke and were seen patrolling the border with sniffer dogs and armoured vehicles.
    Security forces watched on as the migrants crossed the border, many of them carrying small children and babies.
    As migrants were piled onto buses, it was clear that some of them were still unsure about the journey ahead of them. One Syrian refugee could be heard asking Hungarian police where the bus was heading, before being told it was going to Austria.
    Thousands of migrants are crossing the border to Hungary, an eastern outpost of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, on a daily basis.
    But many have said they want to avoid being registered there for fear of being returned to Hungary later as they travel on to richer countries in western and northern Europe.
    The majority are travelling on to Austria and then Germany, in what is Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
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