Migrants Flee Station As Stun Grenades Fired ~ OMEIZA'S BLOG

Tear gas and stun grenades are used on migrants in Greece, as several hundred refugees escape from a Hungarian railway station.

Refugees flee a migrant camp in Hungary

Several hundred migrants have escaped from a Hungarian railway station - after riot police fired stun grenades at refugees trying to storm a ferry on a Greek island.

The refugees fled from Bicske station, hours after 300 others broke out of a migrant camp in Roszke, near the Serbian border.
Still more fled the migrant camp near Bicske, 22 miles from Budapest.
More than 2,000 others say they will leave the Roszke camp unless their demands are met this afternoon. It is unclear what the demands are.
Elsewhere, footage showed migrants throwing stones at police and being dispersed by tear gas and stun grenades on the Greek island of Lesbos.

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It is understood the migrants were attempting to board a ferry, but were not properly registered.
The mayor of the island - which has about 15,000 refugees - said that the situation was "a bomb about to explode" in his hands.
Appealing for immediate help, Spyros Galinos warned: "We will have victims."
Earlier, a ferry sent by Greece had brought more than 2,000 rescued migrants from the island to Piraeus port, near Athens.

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Hundreds of other refugees in Budapest threatened to go by foot the 150 miles (240km) to the Austrian capital.
The Italian coastguard, meanwhile, released footage showing the rescue of hundreds of migrants at sea, off the coast of Libya.
The footage includes images of a baby born to a refugee on the rescue boat.
The deepening crisis comes as Hungary's PM Viktor Orban said the flow of migrants was "endless", adding: "We could end up a minority in our own continent."

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Speaking on Hungarian radio Mr Orban said: "The reality is that Europe is threatened by a mass inflow of people, many tens of millions of people could come to Europe.
"Now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this."
He urged Europe "to show strength in protecting our borders."
Mr Orban said Hungary cannot let the migrants go through to Germany as that would risk Austria closing its border.

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"If Germany issues visas for them, we can let them out," he said.
Mr Orban's comments came as David Cameron said he was considering plans to give sanctuary to thousands fleeing Syria.
The Prime Minister's apparent change of attitude comes as more than 300,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Government to act.
The number of signatures increased rapidly after the publication of a picture of a three-year-old boy, washed up dead on a Turkish beach.

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On Thursday, there were harrowing scenes in Bicske as a father pulled his child and wife on to the train tracks to protest.
The father was handcuffed and taken away.
Austrian police today revealed that the 71 migrants found dead in a truck last week included Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, but none had been identified.
Police chief Hans Peter Doskozil told a news conference that the migrants had likely died from suffocation in Hungary shortly after entering the truck.

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