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Drowned Syrian boys, mother buried

KOBANI/ROSZKE:A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while hundreds of migrants fled from a detention camp and escaped a train stranded under police siege in Hungary.

Drowned Syrian boys, mother buried

The father of Aylan Kurdi holds his son’s body in Kobani



Kobani/Roszke, September 4

A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while hundreds of migrants fled from a detention camp and escaped a train stranded under police siege in Hungary.

Hungary's hardline leader said Europeans could end up a minority on their own continent as a crackdown appeared to crumble in his own country, main entry point for tens of thousands of refugees and migrants reaching the EU by land over the Balkan peninsula.

Hungary has cancelled all trains to western Europe to prevent migrants from travelling on and seeking sanctuary in richer countries north and west. Its Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, says he is enforcing EU rules by forcing all migrants into camps to register, rather than let them proceed on to other countries.

But hundreds escaped on Friday from a camp near the southern border and later clashed with the police there. Others crossed police barricades to set off on foot from the capital's train station, heading west for the distant border led by a Syrian refugee with one leg.

In neighbouring Austria, the police said the driver of a truck found abandoned last week with the bodies of 71 migrants in the back was among a group of people arrested in Hungary, and gave new details about their deaths. 

In the Syrian town of Kobani, three-year-old Aylan Kurdi was laid to rest alongside his mother and five-year-old brother at the "Martyr's Cemetery" in the predominantly Kurdish community near the Turkish border.

Images of Aylan's tiny body washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum gave a human face to the casualties and prompted a global outpouring of sympathy this week. He drowned with his brother Galip, his mother and at least nine others while trying to cross in two small boats to the Greek island of Kos just a few kilometres away.

While pressure is rising on European governments to tackle the crisis more effectively, the boys' weeping father, Abdullah Kurdi, called on countries closer to home to act. — Reuters

UK to take in ‘thousands more’ refugees

Lisbon: PM David Cameron agreed on Friday that Britain would take in "thousands more" Syrian refugees, after an outpouring of emotion over the image of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach put him under pressure to act. Cameron gave no precise figures, but a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency said the British move would improve the lives of 4,000 Syrians.  Reuters

Over 40 migrants drown off Libya 

GENEVA: More than 40 people drowned in the Mediterranean after a dinghy carrying 120-140 Somalis, Sudanese and Nigerians deflated, the International Organisation for Migration said on Friday. The migrants had sailed from Misrata in Libya, but after 6-7 hours their boat began to deflate and some people fell into the water, it said.  Reuters

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