EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA-VIENNA STATION Migrants crowd wait at Vienna train station to travel onwards

Record ID: 141130

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA-VIENNA STATION Migrants crowd wait at Vienna train station to travel onwards
  • Date: 15th September 2015
  • Summary: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (SEPTEMBER 15, 2015) (REUTERS) TRAIN PLATFORMS, MIGRANTS WALKING AROUND VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON PLATFORM YOUNG MAN WEARING HOODIE MIGRANTS ON TRAIN PLATFORM TODDLER IN PRAM TODDLER'S HAND IN PLASTER / TODDLER IN PRAM (SOUNDBITE) (English) TODDLER'S SISTER, NO NAME PROVIDED, SAYING: "We were going in the boat, they push us and he's hit an arm, and after, he's crying, and we go to doctor, doctor says it's broken, and take plaster for two weeks ago, like this." MIGRANTS SITTING ON PLATFORM WOMAN PUTTING HAT ON LITTLE GIRL VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS ON PLATFORM VARIOUS OF BOY TRYING TO OPEN BAG OF SWEETS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON PLATFORM CHILDREN SITTING ON PLATFORM MIGRANTS ARRIVING AT TRAIN STATION PEOPLE WALKING IN THROUGH TRAIN STATION ENTRANCE
  • Embargoed: 30th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Austria
  • Country: Austria
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9RYYFVORR0U4PCVH8N45I4CS8
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hundreds of migrants crowded Vienna's Westbahnhof station on Tuesday (September 15), anxiously waiting to board trains to Germany.
    The migrants fear another holdup might prevent them from resuming their journey as Germany imposed border controls on its southern border with Austria on Sunday (September 13) due to the unprecedented influx of people.
    A total of 4,537 asylum seekers reached Germany by train on Monday (September 14) despite the imposition of new controls at the border with Austria, German police said.
    In Vienna, Reuters journalists saw one toddler with an arm wrapped in plaster cast.
    "We were going in the boat, they push us and he's hit an arm, and after, he's crying, and we go to doctor, doctor says it's broken, and take plaster for two weeks ago," his sister, whose name was not provided, said.
    Most of those who reached Vienna have travelled arrived through the Balkan route, taking them from Greece via Macedonia and Serbia into Hungary and then Austria.
    But as Budapest started to clamp down on the flow of people by sealing off its border with a razor fence, fewer migrants crossed into Austria from Hungary on Tuesday, Austrian police said.
    On Monday, the last day before Hungary sealed off its Serbian border with a razor wire fence, a record 15,700 people arrived in eastern Austria via the border town of Nickelsdorf.
    Hungary has over the last couple of weeks transported tens of thousands of migrants to its Austrian borders and left them to walk into Austria.
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