Refugees finally reach Austria

he first few hundred of an expected 10,000 migrants reach Germany on a special train after being allowed to leave Hungary.

13:38, UK, Saturday 05 September 2015

Migrants Being Processed At Border

Hundreds of migrants have arrived in Munich, Germany, after they were allowed to leave Hungary and cross through Austria.

They are among thousands who have been on the move after Germany and Austria agreed to take more refugees, waiving asylum rules.
Hungary, which has been struggling to cope with an influx of people from the Middle East and Asia, relaxed its attempts to stop the progress of the migrants, many of whom are refugees from Syria.
Germany opened its borders as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would be setting no limit to the number of people who could seek asylum in her country.
"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," she told the Funke newspapers group. "As a strong, economically healthy country we have the strength to do what is necessary."

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A police spokesman said around 450 migrants arrived on a special train from Austria and they would now be taken to an emergency registration centre nearby.
Police have said they are expecting up to 10,000 refugees to come to Germany from Hungary via Austria on Saturday.
It came as Hungary said it will deploy police to its southern border with Serbia, and could use the Army, amid a continuing stream of people travelling north from Turkey.

'I'm Afraid Police Will Take Me'

More than 150,000 have already made their way through Hungary, the country has said.
Earlier in the week, the government attempted to move stop migrants from travelling and to move them to camps in what it described as an attempt to uphold international agreements.
Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban said: "It's not 150,000 (migrants coming) that some want to divide according to quotas. It's not 500,000 - a figure that I heard in Brussels. It's millions, then tens of millions, because the supply of immigrants is endless."

Refugees Stream Into Austria

Police in Austria said 6,500 refugees are now in the country, of which 2,200 are on their way to Germany.
Before Dawn, thousands of exhausted migrants climbed into a set of buses which had been laid on by the Hungarian government.
Sky's Alex Rossi, who joined a group making their own way to Austria along Hungary's E60 motorway, saw children in pushchairs and disabled people in wheelchairs. Some carried pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who some referred to as "mother".

Sky's Mark Stone, who is on the Austrian border, said the main E60 motorway from Budapest was jammed with migrants and traffic carrying them.
One of those who had made their way to Vienna, Firas Al Tahan, 38, a laundry worker from the Syrian capital, Damascus sad he was pleaeed to be there.
"I am very happy," he said.

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Germany provided refuge to 104,460 migrants in August and is expected to take in a total of 800,000 this year alone.