Hungarian Police Detain Over 1,000 Illegal Immigrants At Serbia Border
- 9 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
Police detained 1,022 illegal immigrants during a single day at Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, a local police spokesman said on Sunday. A total of 991 of them were Kosovar nationals, 18 were Afghans, seven Iraqi, three Cuban, two Syrian and one a Somali national.
The biggest group, 157 Kosovars and eight Afghans, were apprehended at noon on the outskirts of Ásotthalom. All the migrants applied for asylum.
On Friday last week, 1,269 illegal immigrants were detained along the border section.
In Budapest, police detained 133 undocumented Kosovars on Saturday and another 121 on Sunday on international trains at Keleti railway station, the communications department of national police confirmed.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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