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| Migrant crisis: Hungary to bus migrants to Austria border | Migrant crisis: Hungary to bus migrants to Austria border |
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| Hungary is sending buses to transport migrants to Austria's border after more than 1,000 began walking there earlier on Friday. | |
| They left Budapest station on foot after a stand-off with police, defying official efforts to take them to reception centres and register them. | They left Budapest station on foot after a stand-off with police, defying official efforts to take them to reception centres and register them. |
| Earlier on Friday another group escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west, from a train stopped by police. | Earlier on Friday another group escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west, from a train stopped by police. |
| European Union states are struggling to agree on how to deal with the crisis. | European Union states are struggling to agree on how to deal with the crisis. |
| The surprise announcement by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff late on Friday night followed several days of chaotic scenes. | The surprise announcement by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff late on Friday night followed several days of chaotic scenes. |
| Janos Lazar said Hungary would offer buses to those walking along the main motorway to Vienna, as well as to migrants still at Budapest's Keleti railway station. | Janos Lazar said Hungary would offer buses to those walking along the main motorway to Vienna, as well as to migrants still at Budapest's Keleti railway station. |
| The buses would take people to Hegyeshalom, on the border with Austria. | The buses would take people to Hegyeshalom, on the border with Austria. |
| Hungary had not yet had a response from the Austrian government so he did not know whether they would be allowed in to Austria, he added. | Hungary had not yet had a response from the Austrian government so he did not know whether they would be allowed in to Austria, he added. |
| "We are taking this step so Hungary's transportation is not paralysed during the next 24 hours," Mr Lazar said, according to the Associated Press news agency. | |
| It was unclear whether migrants would be happy to get on the buses, after several hundred were encouraged to get on a train on Thursday that did not then head to Austria. | It was unclear whether migrants would be happy to get on the buses, after several hundred were encouraged to get on a train on Thursday that did not then head to Austria. |
| The BBC's Matthew Price, walking with the migrants, said that as night fell, many continued to walk, but others - including a family with five children - appeared to stop for the night on the hard shoulder, or in adjacent fields. | The BBC's Matthew Price, walking with the migrants, said that as night fell, many continued to walk, but others - including a family with five children - appeared to stop for the night on the hard shoulder, or in adjacent fields. |
| Hungary has become a major transit nation for people fleeing the Middle East and Africa, seeking to reach north and west Europe. | Hungary has become a major transit nation for people fleeing the Middle East and Africa, seeking to reach north and west Europe. |
| Also on Friday: |