Refugees Refuse To Leave Train In Hungary Camp

Scuffles have broken out west of the Hungarian capital, Budapest, after police tried to force migrants off a train at a refugee camp.

Amid chaotic scenes, police ordered journalists from the scene at Bicske, declaring it an “operation zone”.

The train had left Budapest hours after police let migrants into the railway station following a two-day stand-off.

Meanwhile, there have been sharp disagreements among European leaders over how to deal with the crisis.

In Brussels, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the situation as a “German problem” as Germany was where those arriving in the EU “would like to go”.

But European Council President Donald Tusk said at least 100,000 refugees should be distributed across EU states.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said they would present joint proposals for the redistribution of refugees within the EU.

Czech police are to stop writing numbers on migrants’ hands after criticism from human rights groups.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused European nations of turning the Mediterranean into a “cemetery for refugees”.

Bayern Munich football club said it would set up a training camp for refugees coming into Germany.

The human cost of the crisis was put into sharp focus on Wednesday when five children were among 12 migrants who drowned in Turkish waters while trying to reach Greece.

Images of the washed-up body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who died alongside his mother and five-year-old brother, circulated widely on social media.

Earlier on Thursday, migrants who had been camped outside Budapest’s Keleti railway station surged on to the platforms as soon as police withdrew.

On board the train at Bicske

Nothing illustrates how difficult this crisis is to resolve than what has happened to these several hundred refugees who are currently on this train at Bicske.

There were some police on board. We got as far as Bicske and when the train pulled in, there were loads of police waiting for them on the platform.

The plan seemed to be to take them to a centre where they would be properly identified. Some people left the first carriage, but almost immediately there was resistance. A lot of people were banging on the windows some were shouting “Germany! Germany!” The police put on riot gear.

Some refugees who had been taken off the train began pushing and jostling and there was a little bit of fighting with riot police. And then they forced their way back on the train, which is where we are at the moment with police on the platform and several hundred refugees on the train.

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Source: BBC

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