Scuffles between police and migrants amid chaos in Hungary

Chaos is continuing at a Hungary train station, as migrants are attempting to board trains west but are being sent instead to refugee camps.

In a swirl of confusion, the migrants piled into trains at the Keleti station in the Hungarian capital despite announcements that there was no service to Western Europe. Hungary’s railway company said it had suspended all direct trains from the Hungarian capital to western destinations “in the interests of railway transport security.”

Police later peacefully cleared roughly 900 migrants from one train, many of whom sat down on the platforms to wait. Another train then left with migrants, stopping in the town of Bicske, 35 kilometers west of Budapest, where one of Hungary’s refugee camps is located. Scuffles between police and migrants then broke out at the Bicske station, as migrants refused to go to the camp.

–– AP