Hungary Shuts Down Rail Traffic for Westward-Bound Migrants

Hungary suspended all rail traffic Tuesday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany
Hungary Shuts Down Rail Traffic for Westward-Bound Migrants
Migrants wait to board a train to Germany at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday morning, Sept 1, 2015. Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP
The Associated Press
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BUDAPEST, Hungary—Hungary suspended all rail traffic Tuesday from its main terminal in Budapest and cleared the train station of hundreds of migrants trying to board trains for Austria and Germany — the hoped-for end destinations in their flight from turmoil in the Mideast and Asia.

Migrants chanting “Freedom! Freedom!” congregated outside the station after being pushed out of the building, joining hundreds more in what has become a transit zone and place of refuge for those fleeing Syria’s war and other hotspots.