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Croatian authorities shipping refugees to Hungarian border

Xinhua, September 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Croatian authorities shipped multiple busloads of refugees to the Hungarian border on Friday, where they crossed into Hungary at the town of Beremend, Hungary's southernmost point.

The Hungarian authorities have sent buses to pick them and take them to registration facilities at Vamosszabadi near the Slovak border or Szentgotthard by the Austrian border, Hungarian National Police Force spokesperson Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said.

According to wire service MTI, about 1,500 people entered Hungary on foot through the Beremend border crossing after Croatian authorities transported some 20 busloads of people to the border. At the border Hungarian police merely asked entrants to state their countries of origin.

Internet news portal Index.hu wrote that over 11,000 people had pushed into Croatia over the course of the day in bids to sidestep Hungary's fenced off Serbian border.

Hungary's foreign ministry has demanded information from Croatia, calling it a lie that some agreement had been reached by the Hungarian and Croatian interior ministers as Croatian police claimed. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called the behavior of Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic "pathetic."

Hungary is building a fence on the Croatian border, but construction is in an early phase. It has deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to the border. No incidents were reported. Endit