Migrants Defiant as Hungary Blocks Train Links for 2nd Day

Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany
Migrants Defiant as Hungary Blocks Train Links for 2nd Day
A man hold a placard reading "Help Europe" as Syrian and Afgan refugees attend a protest rally to demand to travel to Germany, outside the Keleti (East) railway station in Budapest, on Sept. 2, 2015. Ferenc Isza/AFP/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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BUDAPEST, Hungary—Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other European Union countries to the west.

“What we want? Peace! What we need? Peace!” a few hundred migrants chanted outside Keleti station, the new focal point for continent-wide tensions over the unrelenting flow of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa fleeing war, persecution and poverty.