Over 10,000 migrants enter Hungary in new record

24 Sep 2015 / 19:56 H.
    Over 10,000 migrants enter Hungary in new record
    Hungary's Prime minister Viktor Orban (C) arrives to attend an European Union (EU) emergency summit on the migration crisis with a focus on strengthening external borders, at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, on Sept 23, 2015, a day after interior ministers agreed a deal on refugee relocation quotas. AFP

BUDAPEST: A new record of 10,046 migrants entered Hungary on Wednesday, mostly via Croatia, Hungarian police said Thursday as refugees continued to pour through the western Balkans bound for northern Europe.
A total of 9,939 migrants entered from Croatia, while 102 crossed from Serbia, police said. The discrepancy of five migrants in the figures was not immediately explained.
The previous record was set on Sept 14, when 9,380 migrants crossed just before Hungary effectively sealed its border with Serbia.
The closure of Hungary's border with Serbia last week led thousands of migrants to enter Croatia, quickly overwhelming authorities who then started bussing them to the Hungarian border.
After crossing into Hungary, trains then take the migrants to the Austrian border. The eastern Austria state of Burgenland recorded on Wednesday 5,900 new arrivals and a further 2,200 since midnight (2200 GMT on Wednesday or 6am on Thursday in Malaysia ).
From Austria the migrants seek to travel onwards to northern Europe, in particular Sweden and Germany which has relaxed asylum rules for Syrians but also tightened border controls.
The new Hungarian figures came after European Union leaders on Wednesday agreed to boost aid for Syria's neighbours, including one billion dollars through UN agencies. — AFP

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