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Hungary To Help Migrants Reach Austria On Buses

Around 100 buses are being organised to offer transport to crowds of refugees who are making a long walk in convoy to the Austrian border.

More than 1,000 people are heading to the border after leaving two Hungarian rail stations.

Hundreds fled from Bicske station - 22 miles from Budapest - after being held on the stationary train and ordered to register at the asylum centre in the town.

Police clambered for their riot gear as a large crowd made their break for freedom, but could only hold back a few.

One man collapsed and died during the commotion, according to Hungarian authorities.

Around 300 people are now trudging along the tracks towards what they hope will be freedom at the Austrian border 84 miles (135km) away.

They say women and children left behind at Bicske will follow on Saturday if the train is not allowed to continue.

The are refusing calls to register in Hungary and are adamant on making it to Germany.

Another long convoy of migrants set out from a Budapest rail station after being repeatedly told that no trains would be leaving for Germany.

A half-mile-long line blocked traffic at times as it snaked along a road in the Hungarian capital and onto a track beside a motorway.

They face a 106-mile (171km) trek to Austria. The buses will be sent to offer transport to this group, who as night fell were bedding down by the motorway.

Help will also be offered to those still at Keleti rail station in Budapest.

Sky's Alex Rossi said - among the group on the motorway - there were children in pushchairs and disabled people in wheelchairs.

"The pace is relentless," said Rossi.

"Hundreds of people making this journey - only stopping occasionally to catch their breath ... They say they won't stop until they get to Germany."

He said some were carrying pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who many refer to as their "mother".

Germany has offered to take in far more refugees than other EU nations.

In another incident on Friday, riot police used tear gas and batons on migrants during another camp break-out attempt at Roszke, near the Serbian border.

About 300 refugees successfully fled the camp but police said they were able to round up the group after stopping motorway traffic.

Some 2,000 others held at the camp have threatened to leave unless their demands are met.

Elsewhere, footage showed migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos throwing stones at police and being dispersed by tear gas and stun grenades

It is understood the migrants were attempting to board a ferry but were not properly registered.

The mayor of the island - which has about 15,000 refugees - said the situation was "a bomb about to explode" in his hands.

Earlier, a ferry sent by Greece had brought more than 2,000 rescued migrants from the island to Piraeus port, near Athens.

The deepening crisis comes as Hungary's PM Viktor Orban said the flow of migrants was "endless", adding: "We could end up a minority in our own continent."

The leaders of Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia have also rejected a quota system to share the migrants around the EU.

In a joint statement, they said a "mandatory and permanent quota for solidarity measures would be unacceptable".

Some 364,000 migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration, with nearly 3,000 dying en route.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said Britain will take in "thousands more" refugees from camps on the Syrian border and provide an extra £100m in aid.

The apparent change of heart followed an online petition signed by more than 300,000 people.

The number of signatures jumped after pictures emerged of a three-year-old boy who washed up on a Turkish beach.

The boy, Aylan Kurdi, was buried on Friday in Kobani, Syria, alongside his mother and five-year-old brother Galip.

The boys' distraught father, Abduallah Kurdi, called on neighbouring countries to do more.

"I want Arab governments - not European countries - to see (what happened to) my children, and because of them to help people," he said.

Four Syrians have been remanded in custody in Turkey for arranging the family's sea crossing. They face charges of smuggling and involuntary manslaughter.

Austrian police have also revealed the 71 migrants found dead in a truck last week included Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, but none had been identified.

Police chief Hans Peter Doskozil said they had likely died from suffocation shortly after entering the truck.

A number of people have been arrested, including the alleged driver.