Hungary seals off southern border to refugees

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Al Jazeera News :Hungary has declared its southern border with Croatia closed to what it calls “illegal migrants”, diverting them into Slovenia in a measure of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its shores in flight from war and poverty.A last train drew up at the border, and about 2,000 refugees disembarked for the short, muddy walk past razor wireinto Hungary prior to a midnight cut-off time expiring on Friday night.”The ‘green border’ has been closed [to ‘illegal migrants’] but you can still cross the border legally and seek asylum,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told the AFP news agency early on Saturday.Inside Story: Can the flood of refugees into Europe be stopped?Hungary has erected a steel fence almost the length of its southern frontier.

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