Government: Hungarian authorities in control of situation, everyone safe  – PHOTOS about today -UPDATE

Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – The authorities are in control of the situation and everyone is safe in Hungary, state secretary of the interior ministry, Karoly Kontrat, told a press conference held by police late on Saturday, following a meeting with the government’s operative staff.

Kontrat said the operative staff established that its decision taken late on Friday had been fully implemented by the relevant organisations and traffic is uninterrupted on the country’s motorways and railway lines. The situation at Keleti railway station has also improved in the wake of the railway company’s decision to resume international services.

Keleti station, Budapest

He said 728 illegal migrants crossing the southern border had been apprehended by 4.30pm on Saturday, increasing the number of illegal migrants stopped by police this year to 167,006. Laszlo Balazs, border control chief of the national police headquarters, said without specifying numbers that migrants were walking in columns in Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Fejer and Pest counties, escorted by police.