Migrants Storm Train After Police Withdraw From Budapest Station

Hundreds of migrants stormed a train in Budapest’s main railway station on Thursday hoping to travel to Austria and Germany after Hungarian police withdrew following a two-day standoff.

Over 2,000 migrants, many of them refugees from 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.

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