Hungarian police detain over 9,000 migrants

Budapest: Hungarian police on Monday rounded up 9,380 migrants who were crossing into the country from Serbia, the highest daily figure this year. Hungary warned that migrants entering the European Union across its southern border with Serbia faced potential expulsion within days under a crackdown to confront Europe's worst refugee crisis in two



decades. Late on Monday, police blocked off the main unofficial border crossing point used by migrants. As tough, new border laws and powers to expel asylum seekers entered into force at midnight, Hungary's right-wing government sealed off a railway track used by tens of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, to enter the EU this year on foot.