Police Block Budapest Station To Migrants

ants outside one of Hungary's main stations chant "Germany, Germany" as police line up by the front entrance.

  Blocked Migrants Chant 'Germany'

Hungary has closed a main station in Budapest to migrants after hundreds of people boarded trains for Austria and Germany on Monday.

Migrants were told to leave the Eastern Railway Terminus and police are lined up at the main entrance, national news agency MTI reported.
An announcement over the station's loudspeakers said the measure would be in effect for an undetermined length of time.
A huge crowd has gathered outside the station, some of whom have been shouting "Germany, Germany".
Scuffles broke out earlier as migrants pushed toward metal gates at a platform where a train was scheduled to leave for Vienna and Munich, and were blocked by police.

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Several say they spent hundreds of euros on tickets after police told them they would be allowed free passage.
It is understood that the station reopened for train traffic but migrants are not allowed into the building.
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU.
Many refugees are hoping to be able to claim asylum in Germany.

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Hungary is the gateway to the EU for migrants crossing by land from nations including Syria and Afghanistan, across Macedonia and Serbia.
Army engineers have begun building a 4m-high fence along the border with non-EU member Serbia in an attempt to control the problem.
A government spokesman told Reuters the terminus was closed in adherence with EU law, which requires anyone who wishes to travel within Europe to hold a valid passport and a Schengen visa.