EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY CAMP RETURN Migrants abandon Hungary highway, return to camp

Record ID: 141685

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY CAMP RETURN Migrants abandon Hungary highway, return to camp
  • Date: 7th September 2015
  • Summary: NEAR ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 7, 2015)(REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF GROUP OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES TALKING TO HUNGARIAN POLICE PEOPLE SLEEPING ON ROADSIDE / BUSES AND POLICE ON ROAD POLICE STANDING BESIDE WAITING BUSES VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS PACKING UP THEIR BLANKETS, MEGAPHONE ANNOUNCEMENT IN ARABIC TELLING PEOPLE TO GET INTO BUSES MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS BUSES VARIOUS OF PEOPLE BOARDING BUSES POLICE PATROLLING OUTSIDE MAN LOOKING OUT OF BUS WINDOW POLICE GETTING ON BUS VARIOUS OF CHILDREN SITTING IN DOORWAY CONVOY OF BUSES DEPARTING
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADFRBMGPOJ0XDG0KWUQDJ2WDIJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Around 300 migrants abandoned their attempt to walk to Budapest on Monday night (September 7) and returned to a reception camp near the Serbian border.
    The group had earlier broken through a cordon around the camp in Roszke and set off down the wrong side of the motorway towards the Hungarian capital.
    Police were unable to prevent their escape despite using pepper spray as migrants scuffled with officers.
    However, after walking for 15 kilometres, the exhausted migrants eventually agreed to board buses back to Roszke.
    The highway was closed to traffic for more than four hours.
    The vast majority of migrants reaching Hungary aim to travel on to Germany and other wealthier western European countries.
    A Bavarian official said Germany expected about 2,500 refugees to arrive by early afternoon on Monday after some 20,000 came in over the weekend.
    Europe's worst migration crisis since the Balkan wars of the 1990s has led many of the continent's leaders to call for a quota system to distribute refugees among the EU's 28 member states.
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