Over 12,000 migrants cross Hungary-Serbia border illegally this year

Budapest, May 19 (MTI) – Over 12,000 migrants have entered Hungary illegally and were stopped at the border fence with Serbia since the beginning of this year, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Thursday.

Nearly 450 migrants request asylum each week in the two transit zones on the Hungary-Serbia border, at Röszke and Tompa, the paper said citing information from the immigration office. New asylum seekers arrive at the zones each day and replace the people who arrived on the previous day, the paper said.

According to official data, 442 asylum requests were submitted in the two zones in the first week of May, 435 in the previous week and 452 during the week that started on April 18.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters