[IsraelTimes] After Hungarian authorities block rail travel, hundreds begin walking the 171-kilometer journey to the border
| Update from the New York Times at 9:15 a.m. ET: |
Bus Fleet in Hungary Carries Migrants to Austrian Welcome
More than 1,000 people from the Middle East and Asia, exhausted after breaking away from police and marching for hours toward Western Europe, boarded scores of buses provided by Hungary's government and arrived before dawn Saturday on the border with Austria. The breakthrough became possible when Austria announced that it and Germany would take the migrants on humanitarian grounds and to aid their EU neighbor. |