Migrants’ train stops at town west of Budapest

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A train full of migrants has stopped at a town west of Budapest after finally being allowed to leave the Hungarian capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It follows a two-day stand-off between the refugees and police at the Keleti station in the Hungarian capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The migrants have been taken from the carriages at Bicske and moved into an underpass by officers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hungary’s railway company said it had suspended all direct trains from the Hungarian capital to western destinations &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in the interests of railway transport security”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police later peacefully cleared roughly 900 migrants from one train&comma; many of whom sat down on the platforms to wait&period; Another train then left with migrants&comma; stopping in the town of Bicske&comma; 22 miles west of Budapest&comma; where one of Hungary’s refugee camps is located&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier&comma; Hungary’s president slammed Germany and EU leaders for a lacking urgency in dealing with Europe’s migrant crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The question of how to defuse the human gridlock in Hungary was being hotly debated in Brussels at a meeting between EU leaders and Hungary’s anti-immigrant prime minister&comma; Viktor Orban&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hungary&comma; which for months had done little to prevent applicants from head west after short bureaucratic delays&comma; now says it won’t let more migrants deeper into the European Union&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We Hungarians are full of fear&period; People in Europe are full of fear&comma; because we see that European leaders&comma; among them the prime ministers&comma; are not capable of controlling the situation&comma;” Mr Orban said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Orban blamed Germany and confirmed his government’s plan to send up to 3&comma;500 troops to Hungary’s southern border with Serbia&comma; stepping up efforts to stop as many migrants as possible from entering the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His top aide said 160&comma;000 migrants had reached Hungary this year&comma; nearly 90&comma;000 of them since July 6&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The migrant &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;problem is not a European problem&comma; the problem is a German problem&comma; nobody would like to stay in Hungary&comma;” Mr Orban said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;All of them would like to go to Germany&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He vowed that Hungary would defend its borders strictly applying EU laws by fingerprinting and screening all migrants that cross into its territory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once the new measures are passed in parliament&comma; he said&comma; migrants and smugglers alike would be warned of what was to come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The military deployment in one of several measures tightening migration laws and increasing penalties for human traffickers expected to be approved Friday by Hungarian lawmakers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Orban’s chief of staff&comma; Janos Lazar urged Germany to help ease the situation at the Keleti train station&period; With an estimated 3&comma;000 people camping outside it in the centre of Budapest&comma; conditions have grown increasingly squalid despite the efforts of volunteers distributing water&comma; food&comma; medicine and disinfectants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We would like Germany&comma; where the migrants want to go&comma; to pull its own weight&comma;” Mr Lazar said&comma; suggesting the migrants go to the German embassy in Budapest and try to apply for a German entry visa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We believe this is primarily an immigration crisis&comma; 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