Scores of migrants broke through a police line near a refugee centre on Monday and marched against oncoming traffic on a motorway hard shoulder headed for Budapest.
Police closed a section of the M5 motorway near Roszke close to the Serbian border after some 150-200 migrants climbed over a barrier and onto the road which leads to Budapest.
The migrants were part of a 1,000-strong group who had earlier forced through a police line at a refugee collection point at Roszke -- the first stop before people are brought to a registration camp for asylum-seekers.
There were minor clashes throughout Monday, as migrants chanted "Freedom!" and protested at having to wait for hours in the open for buses to take them to the registration centre.
The refugee collection and registration camp at Roszke, the main crossing point for the thousands of people coming into Hungary every day for the last month, are overcrowded, with long delays that have led to clashes between migrants and police.
Police fired tear gas at migrants after some threw stones at authorities at the registration camp at Roszke Friday.Earlier some 300 migrants escaped from the camp, forcing the authorities to close the main border crossing with Serbia for around an hour, although the migrants were later caught by police.
Around 167,000 migrants have entered Hungary illegally so far this year, with most crossing the border around the Roszke region in southeast Hungary.
Last Friday, among a raft of anti-migrant laws approved, parliament voted to criminalise illegal border crossing, with the ruling expected to come into force September 15.
AFP
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