Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Budapest after Hungarian police stopped trains leaving for Austria and Germany in a bid to stop them travelling onwards.
Authorities reportedly halted westbound departures from Keleti station for more than an hour this morning, with an announcement over its loudspeakers saying that the measure would be in effect for an undetermined period of time.
Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers were ordered to leave the building, including many who had spent hundreds of euros on tickets.
Chanting "Germany Germany" at budapest Keleti train station pic.twitter.com/Okm5XqUkA2
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Photos showed men and women, some with young children, waving their tickets in the air outside the station as they chanted "Germany, Germany".
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Although the station was later reopened, migrants were not permitted to enter according to national news agency MTI.
Police forced migrants outside the station after departures were stopped
The stoppage came after scuffles broke out between passengers pushing towards platform gates where a train was scheduled to leave for Vienna and Munich, and the police blocking them.
Around 3,650 migrants arrived from Hungary at Vienna's Westbahnhof station on Monday, the city's police said, adding that most continued to neighbouring Germany.
Austrian security forces stopped two trains near the Hungarian border on the same day, with police checking their immigration papers and returning anyone who had not been processed to Budapest, AFP reported.
Hungarian soldiers build a fence near the town of Morahalom, Hungary.
Hungary, which has drawn international criticism for the 100 mile-long barbed wire fence it is erecting along its border with Serbia, is the main gateway to the EU for asylum seekers from countries including Syria and Afghanistan crossing by land through the Balkans.
Under current regulations, known as the Dublin provision, asylum seekers must remain in the first European country they enter until their application is processed and face deportation from other member states if they are found to violate entry requirements.
The EU's Schengen agreement normally allows unrestricted travel between member states but countries can reintroduce border controls under exceptional circumstances.
Additional reporting by PA and Reuters
