Austria orders migrants from trains at Hungarian border

Austrian security forces stopped two trains with several hundred migrants near the border with Hungary today, a police spokesman said, hours after authorities in Budapest let them leave despite many not having EU visas.
The trains were halted near the Hungarian border town of Hegeshalom, where Austrian police proceeded to check their papers.
One of the trains was bound for Munich and carried 300 to 400 migrants, police spokesman Roman Hahslinger told AFP.
"It could well be that others will be stopped. It remains to be seen how many (migrants) will actually arrive," he said, adding that Austria was in close contact with Hungarian and German authorities.

Migrants who had already been registered at refugee processing centres in Hungary would be returned to Budapest, while the others would be allowed to continue their journey, Hahslinger said.
The migrants, many from Syria, were among some 2,000 people who were stuck for several days in makeshift refugee camps at train stations in Budapest.

Police had previously prevented them from leaving, even if they had valid train tickets and papers, because they did not have the required visa to move around the European Union's passport-free Schengen zone.
But today there were no security forces present as the migrants rushed to get on trains leaving for Vienna, Munich and Berlin from Budapest's Keleti station.

People were running along the platform to catch an Austria-bound train scheduled to leave at 1110 GMT, with some helping to lift a woman in a wheelchair into a carriage.