First bus of migrants departs Hungary for Austria: AFP

BUDAPEST - The first buses carrying migrants from Hungary to Austria departed early on Saturday, after Vienna and Berlin agreed to accept thousands of people who have been stranded in Budapest.

One bus left the Keleti train station where thousands of migrants have been waiting to reach Western Europe, an AFP reporter on the scene said, while others picked up members of a crowd of some 1,200 people who set off on foot for the border earlier in the day.