Between hope and despair, migrants board buses for Austria

A migrant family rests on a bus as they are transported from Budapest to the Hungarian border village of Hegyeshalom, early on September 5, 2015 ONBOARD A MIGRANT BUS TO AUSTRIA - "According to the Hungarian government, there will be free buses to take you to the last town before the border," shouts a man urgently in Arabic through a megaphone. He moves quickly through the "Transit Zone," the chaotic dirty labyrinth below Budapest's Keleti train station that has been home to thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and 50 other countries Some have been there days, some weeks.

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Saturday, September 5, 2015