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Migrant crisis: Austria to let people in from Hungary | |
(35 minutes later) | |
The Austrian chancellor has said his country and Germany have agreed to let migrants cross their borders from Hungary. | |
Werner Faymann made the comments shortly after the authorities in Hungary sent buses to transport a group who had been walking to the border. | |
The BBC's Matthew Price saw the first bus leave towards the Austrian and Hungarian border late on Friday. | |
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. |
Earlier, hundreds of migrants left Budapest station on foot after a stand-off with police, defying official efforts to take them to reception centres and register them. | |
Another group of migrants escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west of the Hungarian capital, from a train stopped by police. | |
The surprise announcement by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, Janos Lazar, late on Friday night to despatch transport followed several days of chaotic scenes. | |
Buses have also been arriving to collect migrants who have been camped outside Keleti station in central Budapest. | |
The buses are to take people to Hegyeshalom, on the border with Austria. | |
Mr Lazar said the step was essential so the Hungarian transport network would not become "paralysed". | |
An Austrian interior ministry statement (in German) said that the police and the Red Cross were standing by to receive the migrants. | |
They would have the opportunity to apply for asylum in Austria, the statement said. | They would have the opportunity to apply for asylum in Austria, the statement said. |
In his statement on Facebook, the Austrian Chancellor said he had agreed to allow in the migrants after talks with his German counterpart, Angela Merkel. | |
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. |
Our correspondent says there are fears among the group that the buses are a trick, and that they will be arrested rather than travel on to western Europe. | |
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. |
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