PHOTO: Riot police stand guard in front of a migrant reception centre in Roszke where 2,300 migrants are threatening to break out.
Hundreds of migrants broke out of a Hungarian border camp on Friday and others set off on foot from Budapest to Austria, as authorities scrambled to contain a migrant crisis that has brought Europe's asylum system to breaking point.
- Hundreds of migrants break out of Hungarian border camp
- Others set off on foot from Budapest station for Austria
- Thousands threaten to break out of their reception centre near Roszke
Police said they had given chase and halted traffic on a nearby motorway after some 300 migrants fled a crowded reception centre in Roszke on Hungary's southern border with Serbia.
They said another 2,300 migrants still inside were also threatening to break out, and the MTI state news agency said dozens more had fled a second camp west of Budapest in the town of Bicske.
Hungary said it was enforcing European Union (EU) rules that it must register all migrants caught crossing Hungary's borders, but thousands are refusing and demanding they be allowed to continue their journey to western Europe from war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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