Migrant flow into Austria slows as Hungary shuts borders - police


  • World
  • Tuesday, 15 Sep 2015

NICKELSDORF, Austria (Reuters) - Fewer migrants crossed into Austria from Hungary on Tuesday after Budapest started to clamp down on the flow through the Balkan peninsula to the richer countries of northern and western Europe, Austrian police said.

On Monday, the last day before Hungary sealed off its Serbian border with a razor wire fence, a record 15,700 people arrived in eastern Austria via the border town of Nickelsdorf.

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