(4 Sep 2015) Hungarian authorities announced late on Friday that buses would be deployed to help transport refugees and migrants to the border with Austria.
The announcement by Janos Lazar, the chief of staff to the Hungarian Prime Minister, came after a day of unrest and clashes between migrants and refugees on the one side and the Hungarian police trying to inhibit their movement to other EU countries on the other.
The move comes following the near paralysis of the Budapest transport hub, Keleti Station, after Hungarian authorities stopped allowing migrants and refugees onto trains to Vienna, leading some, who had been camped outside the station, to begin a long march on foot to the border.
The fleet of buses will arrive at the main Keleti train station in Budapest and the M1 highway that connects Budapest with Vienna.
In striking scenes, over 1,200 migrants walked all day and into the night along the highway, sometimes disrupting traffic with their vast numbers.
At a train station in the northern town of Bicske, several hundred other migrants refused police demands to go to a camp, broke through a police cordon and took off for the Austrian border.
Lazar, chief of staff for Prime Minister Viktor Orban said "this is an opportunity, the immigrants have to decide whether they want to take advantage of it."
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