EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY ROSZKE UPDATE Refugees in Hungary taken to reception camps

Record ID: 141187

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY ROSZKE UPDATE Refugees in Hungary taken to reception camps
  • Date: 12th September 2015
  • Summary: NEAR ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS QUEUING TO GET INTO BUSES GOING TO CAMP TO BE FINGERPRINTED MIGRANTS WAITING ON RAILWAY TRACK MIGRANT WOMAN WITH CHILD WAITING MIGRANT WITH CRUTCH WAITING MIGRANTS WAITING AMONGST RUBBISH VARIOUS OF BUS ARRIVING REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS GETTING ONTO BUS WITH POLICE SUPERVISING REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS QUEUING TO GET ONTO BUS VARIOUS OF POLICE ORGANISING TRANSFER VARIOUS OF POLICE BRINGING FOOD TO REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS VARIOUS OF MORE REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS ARRIVING BUS LEAVING WITH REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS WAITING FOR NEXT BUS MOTHER HOLDING HER BABY
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAAYM2AXIQ8J5WJ65D914ECF9Y0
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Groups of refugees and migrants boarded buses at the Roszke border area in Hungary on Saturday (September 12), as they were transferred to reception centres to be registered.
    Hungarian police supervised the queues of migrants travelling to the camps, as more arrived along the railway tracks at the border.
    Hungary's prime minister angrily accused migrants on Friday of "rebelling" against the rule of law in his country as security forces across Europe struggled to control record flows of refugees.
    The United Nations called for the swift creation of large-scale reception centres in frontline states such as Hungary and Greece, and one U.N. agency warned that millions more refugees could arrive in Europe if Syria's civil war continues to rage.
    Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fiery populist who has framed the crisis as a battle to preserve Europe's prosperity and "Christian identity", angrily criticised the behaviour of the mostly Muslim migrants who have been filling up central Budapest and disrupting traffic along roads running westward to Austria.
    More than 170,000 migrants have crossed into Hungary from non-EU Serbia so far this year. Many try to avoid being registered in Hungary for fear of being stranded there or returned to the country later in their journey across Europe.
    Hungary is racing to construct a fence along its border with Serbia by early October to help stem the tide. It also plans to implement much tougher immigration rules from next week.
    Many of the tens of thousands of refugees now trekking from Greece via the Balkans and Hungary towards western Europe are fleeing the Syrian war in search of sanctuary, above all in more welcoming and generous countries such as Germany and Sweden.
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