A migrants holds a child while they leave a train after arriving at a train station in Magyarboly, Hungary, September 18, 2015. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will decide in a week whether to close its border with Croatia, where a double fence to stop a massive flow of migrants through the country is "99 percent finished," a top government official said on Thursday.
Hungary has seen more than 330,000 migrants pass through its territory so far this year, Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, told journalists on Thursday, and the government wants to put an end to the flow.
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