Refugees enter Croatia from SerbiaAustria starts border checks and suspends key rail routeHungary reports huge drop in migrants after border crackdownConcern that migrants may stray into Balkan minefieldsRead the latest summary 6.50pm BSTThis live coverage is now ending for the day. Below is an extract from Patrick Kingsley’s report from Serbia:Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the moment world war entered a recent phase on Wednesday as hundreds of trapped refugees briefly broke through a border gate on the now-blocked Hungarian border,leading to frenzied clashes with Hungarian police, while hundreds of others forged a recent route through Croatia.
Hungarian riot police fired teargas and water cannon over the border with Serbia, and after frustrated crowds,who had gathered there in their thousands when Hungary closed its border on Tuesday, tried to burst through a gate that connects the two countries. Hungarys actions were met with fury by the Serbian government, and which said its northern neighbours had no factual to fire into Serbian territory. 6.04pm BSTHungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has told the Austrian newspaper Die Presse the country will build a fence along portions of its border with Croatia.
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Source: theguardian.com