Desperate refugees escape camps and start trek to Austria
September 04, 2015  19:41
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More than 1000 migrants stranded for days at Budapest's main train station have reportedly left the building, intent on walking to the Austrian border. The huge refugee crowd included people in wheelchairs and on crutches, as well as parents carrying children on their shoulders, all prepared to march 175 kilometres to the border. The migrants were part of an estimated 2,000 people stuck in makeshift refugee camps at Keleti station, after railway authorities had blocked them from boarding trains to Austria and Germany because they lacked EU visas.
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