At the Hungarian-Austrian border (CNN)"Extraordinary situations."
That's what the Hungarian interior minister said the migration pressure in Europe is creating in countries like his and Serbia, as well as others.
The main border crossing station between Hungary and Serbia reopened on Sunday, Hungarian government officials confirmed. The closure of the Roszke border crossing caused thousands of asylum seekers over the past week to try to travel through Croatia instead.
"The migration pressure which is falling heavy on Europe has created extraordinary situations in Hungary as well as in Serbia," said Hungarian Interior Minister Sandor Pinter. "We have devised a solution to this extraordinary situation together, and we attempted to resolve it together."
Pinter voiced his regret that it was only possible to resolve the situation by closing the border crossing stations for a fixed term. But he stressed that Hungary and Serbia are good neighbors and said the reopening of the border crossing station demonstrates the determination of the two countries to work together in crisis situations.
Nearly 1,600 migrants left the Croatian town of Tovarnik for the Hungarian border Sunday evening, according to the Croatian Interior Ministry. Croatian authorities are expecting more migrants at the border crossing.
For days, hundreds of refugees from the Middle East made the final leg of their trip through Hungary on foot, walking the 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to the Austrian border in the middle of the night, unsure of what was going to happen to them when they got there.
After a train ride from the Croatian-Hungarian border, about 300 to 400 people were trekking through the dark early Sunday with Hungarian police as their guides through the village of Hegyeshalom.
It had already been a long day for the refugees. They had been on the train since the morning. There was very little food or water. When they stepped off the train, they had no idea where they were or where they were going.
Austria lay ahead. Thousands a day before them have poured over that border from Hungary
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