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Hungary migrant crisis escalates as police fire teargas
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Hungarian police takes radical measures in order to 'calm the situation'
*World Bulletin / News Desk*
Hungary's migrant crisis escalated Wednesday as police fired teargas at its
main processing centre and the government announced it was sending 2,000
"border hunters" to stem the flow of record numbers of people entering from
Serbia.
A police spokesman said police used the teargas to disperse around 200
migrants who had refused to be fingerprinted and trying to leave the
processing centre at Roszke near the border with non-EU Serbia, along which
Hungary is erecting a fence.
The spokesman, Szabolcs Szenti, said "police are trying to calm the
situation, but the migrants are continuing to shout."
The situation has since calmed down. Another spokesman said the migrants
wanted to leave the centre after news circulated that Germany was easing
asylum rules for people fleeing the civil war in Syria.
Police said meanwhile that more than 2,500 people, the highest ever daily
total, poured across Hungary's southern border with Serbia near the town of
Roszke on Tuesday even though a barbed-wire barrier is nearly complete.
The majority were from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and included more
than 500 children.
"We left because we were scared, we had fear, bombs, war, killing, death...
That's why we left Syria," one Syrian man heading for the Hungarian border
told AFP on Tuesday.
"If I go to Europe, I think it's going to be better... better than my life
in Syria."
The migrants crossing into Hungary form part of around 7,000 refugees and
migrants whose journey to the European Union was blocked last week when
Macedonia declared a state of emergency and shut its borders for three days
after being overwhelmed by the influx.
*FRONT LINE*
As Europe struggles with its worst migrant crisis since World War II,
Hungary has become -- like Italy and Greece -- a "front line" state and
many of the hundreds of thousands of people trying to enter the bloc travel
up through the western Balkans.
A summit of western Balkans leaders plus German Chancellor Angela Merkel
set to be dominated by the crisis takes place on Vienna on Thursday.
So far this year, 140,630 migrants have been intercepted crossing into
Hungary, the vast majority over from Serbia. The daily number has leaped
from 150 in early 2015 to more than 2,000 this month.
Hungary is attractive to the migrants because unlike other EU members in
south-eastern Europe like Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania it is the
passport-free Schengen zone, making onwards travel much easier.
Hungary's right-wing government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban is
attempting to stem the flow by erected a barrier along its border with
Serbia.
A roll of barbed wire along the entire length is due to be completed by
Monday, followed by a four-metre-high (13-foot) fence.
On Wednesday Hungary's police chief Karoly Papp said more than 2,000 police
would be operational along to Serbian border from September.
The reinforcements, called 'border hunters', will patrol the length of the
border, supporting the more than 1,000 regular police already working
around the clock to intercept illegal immigrants, Papp said.
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