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Several Hundred Refugees Set Up Unauthorized Camp on Serbia-Hungary Border

© AFP 2023 / CSABA SEGESVARI Migrants are controlled by police officers at a refugee collection point near the Hungarian-Serbian border of Roszke village on September 7, 2015
Migrants are controlled by police officers at a refugee collection point near the Hungarian-Serbian border of Roszke village on September 7, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Hundreds of refugees set up a camp on the border between Serbia and Hungary without any authorization.

ROZSKE (Hungary) (Sputnik) – Several hundred refugees have set up an unauthorized camp on the Serbia-Hungary border, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Wednesday.

"We are scared to enter Hungary because there is police there – we will get registered and sent to a camp. Then we will stay in Hungary, while most of us would like to go to Germany," a refugee told RIA Novosti.

Around 3,000 migrants came to the Hungary-Serbia border on Tuesday. Most of them said they headed to camps organized by the Hungarian authorities, while several hundred tried to walk to Budapest, but the police did not allow them to do so.

"We shall look for ways to bypass the police. We do not want to register and stay in Hungary. I, for example, would like to get to England," a Syrian refugee told RIA Novosti.

Hungary is one of several EU countries reeling from the rapidly escalating migrant crisis, as hundreds of thousands of people flee their homelands in the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa in the hope of finding refuge in the European Union.

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Budapest estimates that over 156,000 migrants have illegally entered the country since the beginning of 2015 attempting to travel further within the European Union to reach richer countries and apply for asylum there.

As the EU’s largest economy, Germany has agreed to accept large numbers of refugees – mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea – that the European Commission plans to relocate among the EU member-states according to a quota system.

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