
A desperate refugee family have been photographed being dragged off an Austria-bound train by Hungarian authorities who wanted to take them away to a migrant holding camp.

Having finally been allowed to leave Budapest on board trains bound for western Europe after a tense two day stand off with police, hundreds of refugees now face further frustration and delays after their train was halted in the nearby town of Bicske and all those on board ordered off.

Hungarian police officers wearing protective helmets and carrying truncheons demanded the refugees make their way to a migrant holding centre in the town - leading to clashes with those desperate to start a new life in western Europe.

In one particularly harrowing sequence of images a father overcome with emotion tries desperately to protect his wife and child from being taken away - lying down on the tracks in protest before officers dragged them away for their own safety.

Danger: In one particularly harrowing sequence of images a father overcome with emotion tries desperately to protect his wife and child from being taken away - lying down on the tracks in protest

This desperate migrant family were forced off a train by police in Hungary, as authorities tried to take them to a holding camp

Taken away: Hungarian police officers wearing protective helmets and carrying truncheons demanded the refugees make their way to a migrant holding centre in Bicske - 23 miles from Budapest

Lost control: The harrowing images show a man completely lose control of his emotions as he pleads to be allowed to stay with his family

Emotion: A refugee mother lies on the tracks with her young baby as Hungarian authorities try to detain her and take her to a holding camp

The refugee family tried lying down on the tracks in protest before Hungarian police officers dragged them away for their own safety

Having pleaded for his family not to be taken to a migrant camp, the refugee father was dragged from the scene in tears by police officers

The refugee father bites on to his wife's jacket in a desperate attempt to avoid being taken away from his family by Hungarian police

Earlier, hundreds of desperate migrants poured into Budapest's main railway station this morning after Hungarian police withdrew following a two-day standoff, triggering chaotic scenes.

Crowds stormed a stationary train, cramming children through open windows in the belief they might travel west to Austria and Germany. Hungary's main railway operator, however, said there would be no direct trains leaving for western Europe today.

Within a few hours a train carrying hundreds of migrants left the railway station, purportedly bound for Sopron on Hungary's border with Austria.

But 20 miles outside Budapest it was stopped and many of those on board ordered off and told to report to a large migrant camp near Bicske, according to Sky News.

As one refugee staged their protest on the tracks, others still on board the train are understood to have started chanting 'no camp, no camp' and hammering on the train's windows pleading with the authorities not to take them away.

Eventually all carriages were cleared, with hundreds of frustrated migrants left sitting at the sweltering Bicske station demanding to be given water.

A Hungarian government spokesman had earlier claimed the migrants would have to spend time in holding camps instead of being allowed to travelling directly towards western European nations such as Germany.

Scuffles: A young migrant punches fellow refugees who try to drag him back off the train after he clambered on board

A young migrant takes a punch to face from somebody standing in the crowd below after he tried to help his friends jump the queue

Clashes: The young migrants continue to push and shove those standing behind them as they try to ensure their friends get on the train

No entry: Despite antagonising those behind him in the queue, the migrant managed to make it on to the train

Rush: Hundreds stormed a stationary train, diving through open windows in the belief they might travel west to Austria and Germany. Hungary's main railway operator, however, said there were no direct trains leaving to western Europe

Refugees stand around a man who collapsed feeling unwell at the railway station in the town of Bicske after being dragged off the train

Police tonight guarding a train full of refuges stuck in a stalemate as they refuse to obey police and get off at the station, fearing they would be put up in a refugee camp in Bicske, Hungary

Standing guard: Officers tonight kept a watchful eye on the mirgrants who were refusing to get off the train

Over 2,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, had been camped in front of the Keleti Railway Terminus, closed to them by authorities saying European Union rules bar travel by those without valid documents.

The standoff has become the latest symbol of Europe's migration crisis, the continent's worst since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

The police withdrawal at the station coincided with the start of a special parliamentary session to debate tightening migration laws and punishment for those caught trying to breach a 3.5-metre high fence Hungary is building on its border with Serbia.

Senior ruling party lawmaker Gergely Gulyas said the amendments could be passed this week and cut the number of illegal border crossings to 'zero' by mid-September.

Hungary is a key arrival point for tens of thousands of migrants entering the European Union, with some 50,000 entering the country in August alone.

On Monday, Hungary allowed several thousand to board trains bound for Austria and Germany but the following day Keleti station was closed to anyone without an EU passport or a valid visa.

The move left around 2,000 men, women and children stranded around the station or in the underground 'transit zone', a makeshift refugee camp beneath the station where thousands have been sheltering on blankets in cramped conditions, looked after only by Hungarian volunteers.

Crowds stormed a stationary train, cramming children through open windows in the belief they might travel west to Austria and Germany

Carried away: A migrant boy is lifted through the window off a stationary train at the crisis-hit Keleti train station in Budapest

Piling on: Despite the crush, Hungary's main railway operator said there were no direct trains leaving for western Europe today

Over 2,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, have been camped at Keleti Railway Terminus

Patience: Migrants wait on a platform in the hope of catching a train at the crisis-hit Keleti railway station in Budapest earlier this morning

Crush: Hundreds of desperate migrants poured into Budapest's main railway station this morning after Hungarian police withdrew following a two-day standoff, triggering chaotic scenes

Over the past two days there have been a number of demonstrations by several hundred of the migrants chanting 'Germany! Germany!' and tense standoffs with riot police as well as a number of scuffles.

Yesterday scuffles broke out between thousands of migrants and police at Keleti international train station, as Hungary called for clarification on Germany's asylum regime.

Hungary's government explained the U-turn by saying it was applying EU law after confusion caused by an easing of Germany's asylum regulations and called on Berlin's embassy to clarify the rules.

Sporadic fighting broke out between migrants yesterday, while taunts from a small group of far-right skinheads sparked some scuffles.

Earlier, tempers rose when the police suddenly moved in to clear a pathway in the 'transit zone', a makeshift underground refugee camp where thousands have been sheltering on blankets in cramped conditions, looked after only by Hungarian volunteers.

'My friends got on a train on Monday! Why the hell don't they let me go too, all of us?' 41-year-old Syrian protestor Ohlit told AFP in front of the station, furiously brandishing his ticket to Munich that he purchased Monday.

The standoff has become the latest symbol of Europe's migration crisis, the continent's worst since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s

Migrants - including some young children - were seen piling on to the stationary train in the hope it would take them to Germany

Fighting: As they pushed and shoved to be allowed on to the train, some of the desperate migrants began fighting among themselves

Tears: A young migrant boy is seen crying as his father lifts him into the air amid the crush to board a train in Budapest

Desperate: Exhausted from a long journies and days of being blocked from the entering the station, migrants rushed to board a train

Last night human rights activists and lawyers condemned police in the Czech Republic for writing numbers on the arms of migrants after detaining them.

Officers used pens to mark 214 refugees, mostly Syrians, who were detained on a train yesterday at a border crossing from Austria and Hungary.

The measure has provoked anger because it recalls Nazi Germany's practice of writing numbers on concentration camp prisoners.

Alp Mehmet, vice-chairman of MigrationWatch, which campaigns for managed migration, told MailOnline: 'It is simply wrong and foolish.

'They are treating them in a way that could look like they are branding them or doing what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany.

'I can understand why people will be repulsed by this type of action. No one is suggesting they won't be treated well, but the sooner they stop this the better all around.'

Andrew Stroehlein, European Media Director of Human Rights Watch, tweeted a picture of an officer marking a migrant child and later wrote: 'What never stops amazing me are people who look at the Holocaust and think that it only holds lessons for Germans & Jews.'

Zuzana Candigliota, a lawyer with the Czech Human Rights League, added: 'There is no law allowing the police to mark people like this.'

AMID THE CHAOS AND DESPAIR, THE MIGRANT BABIES NAMED HOPE AND SHELTER BORN IN THE SHADOW OF BUDAPEST STATION It is a tiny beacon of hope in what has otherwise become the epitome of human catastrophe. Among the battered cardboard and blankets which have been strewn across the main railway station in Budapest, two tiny newborn babies lie encased in their mothers' arms, unaware of the tragedy unfolding around them. One little girl, believed to named Sadan - which means 'The Shelter' - was born in the underpass next to Keleti station, where her mother and father are desperately waiting to board a train to find a new, safe life in Europe. Under Shelter: This four-day-old baby girl, who has been named as Sadan - which means Shelter - was born in the underpass next to Keleti station to her refugee mother The tiny four-day-old baby was pictured on Sky News, wrapped tightly in a white blanket as she slept soundly beside her proud parents. Just metres away, another refugee mother was tending to her newborn baby Shems, who was born yesterday amid the devastation and chaos which has engulfed Hungary's main terminal. The little girl - whose name means sunlight and hope - had to be delivered in the nearby dirt-ridden subway after an ambulance refused to take her mother to hospital. Last night, the mother and the little girl were allowed to board a train to Germany where they are said to be receiving medical attention. Advertisement

Germany bound: A young boy holds a German flag in front of the railway station in Budapest earlier this morning

Keleti Railway Terminus has been closed to migrants by authorities saying EU rules bar travel by those without valid documents

Upset: A young child cries as hundreds of migrants try to board a train at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest earlier this morning

Migrants storm into a train at Budapest's Keleti train station as Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking entry

Traumatising: A young child cries as hundreds of migrants try to board a train at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest earlier today

Get back: There was no immediate word about why the police withdrew from Keleti train station in Budapest earlier this morning

Migrants struggle to board a train at the railway station in Budapest. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year

A young child cries as hundreds of migrants try to board a train at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest earlier this morning

Czech interior ministry spokeswoman Lucie Novakova said the move was introduced because of the increasing number of children among the refugees.

'Our goal is to prevent the children from getting lost,' she added.

The measure was used with large groups of refugees to keep record of family members, according to Katerina Rendlova, spokeswoman for a unit of the Czech police dealing with foreigners.

'We also write the code of the train they have arrived on so that we know which country we should return them to within the readmission system.'

Unlike some other EU member states, Czech authorities maintain that migrants who enter the country without first having made an asylum request should be returned to the state from which they arrived, in line with the EU's Dublin Provision.

The overwhelming majority of Czechs oppose hosting refugees, according to an August survey by local polling agency Focus in which 93 percent of respondents said they should be returned to their country of origin.

Rendlova said the refugees 'used to get the numbers on a piece of paper but they kept throwing them away'.

'They have agreed with the marking – they don't have a problem with this, they know it's in their interest.'

Over 2,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, had been camped in front of the Keleti Railway Terminus, closed to them by authorities saying European Union rules bar travel by those without valid documents

Smuggled: Migrants are found by police officers inside the trunk of a human trafficker's car on the M5 motorway near Budapest

A migrant who was found inside the truck of a human trafficker's car is searched by a police officer on the M5 motorway in Szatymaz

A migrant who was found inside the trunk of a human trafficker's car is searched by a police officer on the M5 motorway in Szatymaz