EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY SERBIA CROSSING Army patrols along Hungary-Serbia border amid migrant crisis

Record ID: 141104

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY SERBIA CROSSING Army patrols along Hungary-Serbia border amid migrant crisis
  • Date: 14th September 2015
  • Summary: ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) ROSZKE-HORGOS BORDER CROSSING SOLDIERS STANDING AT CROSSING SOLDIER CROSSING ROAD / MILITARY TRUCK SIGN READING: "ROSZKE-HORGOS" VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS NEAR THE CROSSING VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS BOARDING MILITARY VEHICLES MIGRANT CENTRE ACROSS THE ROAD VARIOUS OF EMPTY MIGRANT CAMP VARIOUS OF RED CROSS OFFICIALS, POLICE AT GATE VARIOUS OF TENTS AT MIGRANT CAMP SEEN THROUGH FENCE
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8GBVWNE6DTUDI8K6IHWRU3U8M
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Dozens of Hungarian soldiers patrolled the border crossing with Serbia on Monday (September 14), as the country prepared to seal off its frontier to stem the tide of migrants.
    Soldiers manned the Roszke-Horgos crossing, close to a migrant reception centre where thousands have stayed before moving northwards in Europe.
    The camp was empty on Monday morning after all newly-arrived migrants were put onto buses and taken straight to the Austrian border.
    Thousands of migrants have been entering 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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