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                                                                                                                  Monday 21 September 2015

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Migrants desperate for sanctuary in Europe pack trains

J. SUBBOTOVSKA                 Migrants and refugees board a train by climbing through the windows as they try to avoid a                                       Sweden.
D. KIRKA                       police barrier at the station in Tovarnik, Croatia, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. Police said Saturday                                 The surge of migrants con-
Associated Press               more people are coming in from Serbia, mostly near the eastern border town of Tovarnik, where                                    tinues to exact casualties.
TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP)         there are already around 2,500 people waiting for transport.                                                                     Two migrant vessels sank
— Migrants desperate to                                                                                                                                         in the eastern Mediterra-
find sanctuary in Europe                                                                                                                 (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)  nean on Sunday, killing 13
climbed through windows                                                                                                                                         people.
and fought for space on        Hungary’s decision to shut      lence in the Middle East,     sands more continue to                                             Authorities from Greece to
trains headed north Sun-       its border with Serbia set off  Asia and Africa to rush from  brave the Mediterranean                                            Austria and are struggling
day as border closures and     a chain reaction in Croa-       one European border to the    in rickety boats as they try                                       to respond.
plunging temperatures in-      tia and Slovenia that has       next as they desperately try  to reach more welcoming                                            About 15,000 migrants
creased tensions among         forced people fleeing vio-      to find a way north. Thou-    countries like Germany and                                         crossed into Austria from
thousands in a desperate                                                                                                                                        Hungary and Croatia over
rush to keep moving.                                                                                                                                            the weekend.
Scuffles broke out in this                                                                                                                                      In the Austrian border vil-
Croatian border town                                                                                                                                            lage of Nickelsdorf, people
when hundreds of people                                                                                                                                         arrived by foot Sunday af-
surged toward a train they                                                                                                                                      ter a half-hour walk from
hoped would take them to                                                                                                                                        the Hungarian town of He-
Austria. Police tried to hold                                                                                                                                   gyeshalom. Then they lined
back the crowd, but were                                                                                                                                        up for buses to take them
overwhelmed as migrants                                                                                                                                         to shelters in Vienna and
tried to climb through the                                                                                                                                      other parts of the coun-
windows of the already                                                                                                                                          try. Austrian soldiers stood
packed carriages.                                                                                                                                               alongside.
Hungary, which closed its                                                                                                                                       Austrian officials are scram-
border with Serbia on Sept.                                                                                                                                     bling to find places for the
15, erected another steel                                                                                                                                       migrants to stay because
barrier at the Beremend                                                                                                                                         many camps are already
border crossing from Croa-                                                                                                                                      overcrowded.q
tia to try to slow the flow
of migrants. But they kept
coming.
The sense of desperation
increased for migrants as
days of intense heat gave
way to rain.
“Unfortunately, we sleep
here on the ground without
anything. It was very cold,”
said Muhammad Dakiri,
a Syrian asylum seeker in
Tovarnik.
“Suddenly the weather has
turned to cold and raining.
We couldn’t sleep well be-
cause in an hour or half an
hour we wake up because
we’re feeling cold.”
Volunteers handed out
tents and warm clothes
to make people more
comfortable. But migrants
abandoned the supplies
when word of the train
spread through their make-
shift encampment, leaving
tents, rain slickers and food
strewn across the town
square.
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