Hungary: Refugees break through police cordon at Roszke camp

Hundreds of refugees stranded at a makeshift camp near the village of Roszke, close to the Hungarian/Serbian border, managed to break the police cordon and attempt to escape, Friday. The village of Roszke has been inundated with thousands of refugees and migrants over recent weeks, who have been crossing the border from Serbia on their journey to Western Europe. The refugees, many of whom come from Syria fleeing the war and the so-called Islamic State (IS, formely ISIS), have been left stranded in Hungary after authorities cracked down on their onward passage to western Europe, closing train and bus stations and stepping up border patrols. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed other European countries for the crisis, in particular Germany, which last month stated it would grant asylum seekers from Syria special status.