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People pulled off Austria-bound train, near refugee camps

A Hungarian train bound for towns near the Austrian border with several hundred migrants and refugees onboard was stopped near one of the country's four main refugee camps and the migrants taken off, state news agency MTI reported.

The train stopped at Bicske, around 40 km west of Budapest, and police took the migrants and refugees off and directed them onto buses to take them to the nearby camp, MTI reported from the scene. 

AFP estimated there were around 200-300 migrants on board.