Austria, Germany Receive İllegal Migrants From Hungary

More than 3,000 asylum seekers were brought in the Austrian capital Vienna on Saturday, local media reported.



Asylum seekers in Vienna were welcomed by humanitarian organizations as volunteers provided first aid and food.



Several migrants told Anadolu Agency that Hungarian police had been violent with them as well as with their children. They did not go into specifics however.



The immigrants were later sent to Munich, in Germany by train.



Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said early on Saturday that he had agreed with Germany and Hungary to receive thousands of migrants.



The Austrian Interior Ministry announced that they expected more than 10,000 migrants to arrive from Hungary and around 6,000 migrants crossed into Austria in the past five days.



On Friday, the Visegrad Group member states, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia reaffirmed their opposition to "as for refugee relocation between EU states.



After the meeting in the capital of the Czech Republic Prague, the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland published a joint declaration on the Central European group's official website.



"Each Member State may build on its experience, best practices and available resources; principles agreed at the highest political level, including in European Council conclusions must be respected; any proposal leading to the introduction of mandatory and permanent "as for solidarity measures would be unacceptable," said the declaration.



The declaration also stated that the members of the Group were ready to provide financial aid to countries with high number of refugees such as Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, including refugee camps, as well as the transit countries of the Western Balkans.



European countries are facing widespread criticism for their handling of illegal migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a desperate attempt to get to Europe.



Approximately 2,500 of them have died or gone missing trying to reach the continent this year alone. - Saraybosna