Hungary scrambles to confront migrant influx, Merkel heckled

Syrian migrants walk along a road after crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border into Hungary, near Roszke, August 26, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

ROSZKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army as record numbers of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe.

In Germany, which expects to receive 800,000 of them this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled by dozens of protesters as she visited an eastern town where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend.