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                      Refugees Finally Arriving in Germany

   by VOA News

   Trains filled with refugees are finally arriving in Germany Saturday
   after days of delay at Hungary's Keleti train station in Budapest.

   Reports from Germany and Austria say the first trains carrying refugees
   left Austria for Germany on Saturday, just hours after they were bused
   from Budapest to the Austrian border.

   Thousands of migrants are now entering Austria. It is a breakthrough
   after a week of uncertainty about the status of refugees seeking asylum
   inside the borders of the European Union.

   Austrian officials said Saturday that several thousand refugees have
   already passed into Austria where they have been greeted with aid
   packages and a place to sleep.

   ''Austria's chancellor said his country and Germany will grant the
   migrants unhindered entry. Chancellor Werner Faymann announced the
   decision early Saturday after talking with German Chancellor Angela
   Merkel.

   Faymann said the decision was prompted by the "present emergency
   situation on the Hungarian border."

   Many refugees left Hungary's Keleti Train Station in Budapest on foot
   Friday after days of waiting for Hungarian officials to allow them to
   travel. Hungary later sent buses to pick up the hundreds of migrants
   spreading out along a six-lane highway as they headed west toward the
   Austrian border.

   ''

   Budapest dilemma

   Back in Budapest, VOA correspondent Luis Ramirez says the Keleti
   station is now nearly empty with just a few hundred migrants left
   behind after the buses stopped running. Some have set out for the
   Austrian border on foot, while others -- those with money -- are hiring
   cars to take them to the border.

   Hungarian authorities had put out portable toilets and faucets for
   washing, and a screen for children to watch cartoons, but those
   niceties have been packed away and janitors are at work cleaning the
   station.

   But aid workers at the train station say they expect more refugees to
   come to Budapest from the direction of the Serbian border. It is not
   possible to say how many.

   "What to do about this wave of refugees is still a dilemma," Ramirez
   said Saturday in Budapest, after visiting the train station. "No one
   disagrees that these people should get immediate help."

   Earlier, when the station was still packed with people, he called the
   station "a scene of desperation." He said families were sprawled out
   across the floor and young men were wondering what their next step was
   going to be. He said they talked of their hopes of reaching Austria and
   Germany where they would be safe.

   Hungary had refused to let the refugees board westward trains in an
   effort to comply with European Union regulations that require they be
   registered in the first country they get to. But the refugees, in turn,
   refused to go to processing centers, hoping to move on and register
   somewhere else where the economy is stronger.

   ''
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