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BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Hundreds of migrants stormed Budapest's main international rail station after police reopened it Thursday. (TAKE MAP) That's as an escalating refugee crisis sears into European hearts by horrifying pictures of a drowned Syrian toddler. Chaos erupted as crowds of people burst into the flashpoint station and rushed towards a standing train. But all international trains remained cancelled.
New hope for asylum seekers who were stranded outside the station. They rushed into the station as police withdrew from the gates after two days of blockade.
I am now inside the Budapest east station. You can see all those migrants are trying to get on the train that they have been waiting for two days. And some are still waiting here because they have no idea where the train is heading.
"I thought that we needed the ticket, but all the passenger they don’t have ticket they just took this train. The people they don’t have hope. They just want to go to another country from here, because they don’t have a safety life. The police don’t control us. We live on the street. We were like animals. We are human being. Look at the those people, they look like animals," A Syrian asylum seeker said.
According to station announcements, there are only domestic trains here. International trains are still canceled. They say it's for security reasons.
"I don’t know their destination. Because this train going to local country, next to the Austrian border," A local resident in Budapest said.
The people here say they have had no explanation from police or other authorities. They are afraid of being sent to camps and being registered to stop them going to where they want to go.
“There is no ticket. People go free without ticket. How would they go to Germany without ticket? It it impossible. They are taking us to camp. We don’t go to camp. There is no life in Hungary. There is no people here. There is no life. The life in Germany are better,” A local resident in Budapest said.
Many asylum seekers are still camping outside the station, and more are expected to join them in the coming days.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
