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Day 2 of train standoff on Hungarian train tracks

A day after Hungarian police stopped an Austrian-bound train and attempted to get passengers on buses to refugee camps, the standoff between the refugees and migrants on the train and police continues.

The head of Hungarian police border control, Col. Laszlo Balazs, told the Associated Press that 500 passengers have refused to go to a nearby camp in the town of Bicske.

Sixteen others voluntarily checked into an asylum centre yesterday, Balazs said.

Yesterday, police tried to force the passengers off the train when a woman, carrying a small baby, fell on the railway lines, enflaming anger amongst those on the train: