EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-STATION Migrants camp in Budapest on their way to western EU countries
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142331
EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-STATION Migrants camp in Budapest on their way to western EU countries
- Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-STATION Migrants camp in Budapest on their way to western EU countries
- Date: 27th August 2015
- Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (AUGUST 27, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BUDAPEST SKYLINE VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF BUDAPEST KELETI TRAIN STATION PEOPLE SITTING IN FRONT OF STATION VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS CAMPING OUTSIDE STATION VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS NEAR SIGN READING (English): "TRANSIT ZONE" (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM AFGHANISTAN, AHMAD RAHIMI, SAYING: "The people here, actually everyone is waiting for a smuggler to find and give some money and leave here somehow. We are waiting, if we couldn't do that, we have to stay in Hungary." MIGRANTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM AFGHANISTAN, AHMAD RAHIMI, SAYING: "I wish I would not leave my own country because it was better to die once than die more than a hundred times on this long way with difficulties." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS CAMPING OUTSIDE STATION VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WASHING CLOTHES (SOUNDBITE) (English) MIGRANT FROM BANGLADESH, SHU JOHN, SAYING: "Don't have money, how can possible go outside? Go that side? How can possible go Germany, Italy? Now also police problem." PEOPLE OUTSIDE TENT AT BUDAPEST WESTERN STATION MIGRANT TRANSIT ZONE SIGN READING (English): "DEAR EVERYBODY, THIS IS A TRANSIT ZONE AND NOT A REFUGEE CAMP" WOMAN SLEEPING
- Embargoed: 11th September 2015 13:00
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- Location: Hungary
- Country: Hungary
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA6M6DW1BPDF6U3437IHT9JAEZN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Migrants camped outside Budapest's main station on Thursday (August 27) as they attempted to continue their journey into western Europe.
"The people here, actually everyone is waiting for a smuggler to find and give some money and leave here somehow. We are waiting, if we couldn't do that, we have to stay in Hungary," one 27-year-old Afghan migrant, Ahmad Rahimi, said as he waited at the city's Keleti railway station.
"I wish I would not leave my own country because it was better to die once than die more than a hundred times on this long way," he added.
Hungary made plans on Wednesday (August 26) to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army as record numbers of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe.
A record 2,533 mainly Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis crossed from Serbia into EU member Hungary on Tuesday, climbing over or squirreling under a razor-wire barrier into the hands of an over-stretched police force that struggled to fingerprint and process them. Authorities said over 140,000 had been caught entering so far this year.
"Don't have money, how can possible go outside? Go that side? How can possible go Germany, Italy? Now also police problem," Bangladeshi migrant Shu John said.
Civil organisations were running a station transit zone at the Hungarian capital's Western Railway specifically for migrants.
The surge in migrants seeking refuge from conflict or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has confronted Europe with its worst refugee crisis since World War Two, stirring social tensions and testing the resources and solidarity of the 28-nation European Union. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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