Thousands of refugees who spent days camped outside a Budapest station in the hope of taking a train to Austria or Germany have taken to the motorway to walk the 150 mile journey to the Austrian border.

Hungarian officials closed Keleti rail station on Tuesday, but after a two-day stand-off with refugees it was reopened. Refugees surged for trains in the hope of travelling to Austria or Germany, only for rail announcers to say there were no longer services to destinations in those countries.

Some refugees who did board trains were taken to migrant camps in west Hungary.

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Today just after midday after it became clear that there would be no services to western Europe, refugees left Keleti station and began the 150-mile journey to the Austrian border on foot.



The Mirror reports that they chanted ‘Austria, Austria!’ as they set off. The journey could take a fortnight to complete.

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‘The people of Hungary do not want to help so we have no choice,’ 36-year-old Musa Hal, from Syria, told The Mirror.

‘We will walk till we drop. We have suffered so this is just another stop along the way.’

Police are struggling to cope and the crowd is covering three lanes in some places.

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