Refugees in Hungary flee halted train, begin trek on foot toward Austria

Several hundred migrants are hoping to make the 90-mile trek to Austria on foot if no trains would take them from Budapest's Keleti train station. (Storyful)

By Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum-September 4

BICSKE, Hungary — Asylum-seekers who had been locked in a tense standoff with Hungarian authorities fled on foot Friday, rushing police lines from a halted train just outside the nation’s capital, as Hungary's leader warned that an influx of Muslim refugees meant that Europeans could become “a minority in our own continent.”

Refugees in Hungary Flee Halted Train, Begin Trek on Foot Toward Austria by Thavam Ratna