Migrants Begin Long Walk From Budapest To Austria

Hundreds of migrants stranded for more than a day on a train at the Hungarian town of Bicske have started walking to the Austrian border amid a worsening refugee crisis and the deaths of migrants seeking shelter from war-torn countries.



The 110-mile walk started Friday after Hungarian authorities closed down trains and buses to Western Europe indefinitely following the influx of thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa to Budapest's main railway station Thursday morning.



Around 500 migrants broke through the police cordon, and started marching westwards.



Some of the migrants told Anadolu Agency that the police used tear gas and batons to stop them, and they responded by throwing stones back at policemen.



"We don't have any problems either with the Hungarian people or the Hungarian police. We have tickets to go to Austria and Germany, and that's where we want to go. We don't want to go to camps," they said.



A 51-year-old Pakistani man reportedly died during the breakout. The man, who was found injured about half a mile away from the station, died in the ambulance despite medics' attempts to resuscitate him for 50 minutes, the police said in a statement, adding that the cause of death would be determined following an autopsy.



The migrants at the Bicske station were offered water and food many times, but the migrants refused to accept assistance, and got off the train, the statement said.



A record 100,000 refugees reached EU borders in July, while more than 150,000 entered Hungary in the first eight months of the year. Germany alone expects 800,000 asylum applications in 2015, four times the number last year.



Approximately 2,500 refugees and migrants have died or gone missing trying to reach Europe this year alone, according to the U.N. - Ankara