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Police guard sleeping refugees

Our own Mary Atkinson is in Hungary covering the refugee crisis rocking Europe. Here is her latest report:

A huge convoy of police cars and vans have parked at the entrance to the train station in Debrecen. Migrants and volunteers are huddled in small groups, with police standing in the road around a local teenager.

Earlier, the tennager shouted "we will kill you! Get out of our country!"

A volunteer named Christine said the same boy was one of three who came by the same spot last week and attacked the migrants, kicking them and spitting on them. Now he is having a long discussion with the cops.

Behind the police vehicles, most of the migrants are sleeping, huddled on the marble floor of the station concourse in blankets and jackets.

The police declined to comment.

Police question a local tennager known to be harassing the refugees (MEE/Mary Atkinson)