Migrants Nearing Hungarian Border
- 25 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
Approximately 130 migrants who set off on foot from Belgrade are just a few kilometres from the Hungarian-Serb border. The state-run TV M1 reported yesterday that the migrants had arrived in Subotica early in the morning and then were seen in about 10 kilometres from the Hungarian border.
The immigrants say they are coming to protest against the border fence and tight regulations. They arrived at Horgos border station after 9 p.m. Sunday evening and began a hunger strike.
At present about 1,000 migrants have amassed on the Serb-Hungarian border.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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MTI photo: Kelemen Zoltán Gergely
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