Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Photos:Refugee Crisis Rock Europe

Nowhere to go: Thousands of men, women and children slept in sleeping bags outside the city's Eastern Railway Terminus overnight
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Chaos: Migrants wave their train tickets and lift up their children in the air outside the station in Budapest, Hungary, during an protest
 Sleeping: Hungary’s police said in a statement they intend to reinforce their positions outside the terminal as the volume of migrants arriving from Serbia continues to grow by the hour
All trains were cancelled out of the city's Keleti station after it was overwhelmed with desperate migrants trying to reach western Europe

 Thousands of migrants remain stranded at Budapest's main international railway station as authorities stick to European Union rules and prevent them from leaving for Germany and other countries west of Hungary 
Desperate: Volunteer groups accustomed to providing food, clothing and medical assistance to a few hundred migrants at a time 

A young man sleeps on a window ledge as migrants rest near the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest earlier this morning

 Hungary’s government spokesman has revealed that 3,000 migrants and refugees are entering his country every day, just hours after furious clashes with police at a train station in Budapest
Thousands of people are sleeping on the streets outside Budapest's Eastern Railway Terminus tonight, after Hungary closed the station to migrants on Tuesday

Entire families are camping out at the station, waiting to see whether the situation will change tomorrow and they will be allowed to continue with their journeys to western Europe
Violence broke out as tensions ran high at the station today, after migrants and refugees were told that no one else would be allowed to board trains

Several hundred of the migrants at the station demonstrated following the closure, and loud chants of ‘Germany, Germany’ and ‘Merkel, Merkel’ filled the streets outside the station

But government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs complained tonight that Hungary has been made the ‘scapegoat’ of Europe’s migrant crisis, in an interview with BBC Newsnight

Making demands: Syrian and Afghan refugees shout political slogans and demand to be allowed to travel on to Germany

Frustration: Protesting migrants from Afghanistan and Syria hold up a child wrapped in blankets, as a reminder of the horrors they have fled, while demonstrating outside the shuttered Keleti Railway Station in Budapest earlier this morning
Symbolic: Migrants hold up young boys covered in blankets in front of the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest this morning. The gesture is intended to remind Hungarian authorities of the death and destruction the migrants have already fled

Migrants protest outside ton Wednesday, shouting 'Freedom, freedom' and demanding to be let onto trains bound for Germany
No support: A young migrant boy holds up a sign that claims the Hungarian police officers took his money and passport

Demonstrations: Around 3,000 migrants are currently waiting at Keleti station in the Hungarian capital. The number is ever-growing





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