Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary
Migrants arrive at the Austrian-Hungarian border station of Hegyeshalom, Hungary, September 5, 2015.
Migrants gesture on a bus bound for Austria and Germany, next to the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, September 5, 2015.
HEGYESHALOM, HUNGARY/VIENNA |
Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.