Hungary has shut its main border crossing with Serbia after about 300 migrants escaped from a nearby refugee camp, police say.
"In the interest of preventing accidents, the police have temporarily closed the Roszke motorway border crossing to incoming traffic and are redirecting traffic to (a national road)," police said in statement on Friday.
The move came after around 300 people broke through a fence of a nearby refugee camp.
"The police have taken the necessary steps to apprehend them," police said.
Hungary has become one of the flashpoints in Europe's migrant crisis in recent weeks, as thousands of refugees cross into the country on their way to Germany, which recently eased asylum restrictions for Syrians.
On Friday, about 500 migrants faced off police for a second day in the town of Bicske, refusing to get off a train that they believed would take them to the Austrian border, but that had stopped just 40 kilometres out of the capital, with police attempting to remove the refugees and place them in a camp.
The stand-off came as Hungarian MPs prepared to debate tough new anti-immigration measures, including criminalising illegal border crossing and vandalism to the new anti-immigrant razor-wire fence erected along the border with Serbia.
More than 1000 migrants stranded for days at Budapest's main train station left the building on Friday, intent on walking to the Austrian border.
The huge crowd included people in wheelchairs and on crutches, as well as parents carrying children on their shoulders, all prepared to march 175 kilometres to the border.
"We are very happy that something is happening at last, The next stop is Austria. The children are very tired, Hungary is very bad, we have to go somehow," 23-year-old Osama from Syria said.
Police watched the silent migrants walk through the Hungarian capital, but did not intervene, a correspondent from French news agency AFP said, adding there was no sign of conflict at the moment.
The march caused traffic jams on the main route into the city from the western Buda area.
Hungary's handling of the migrants, who have been stuck for days, sometimes even weeks, in makeshift camps at the station, has caused confusion and anger.
After unexpectedly allowing several thousand to board trains for Austria and Germany on Monday, authorities suspended services for 48 hours, then reopened it on Thursday, only to have the national railways announce that it was suspending service to western Europe for "security reasons".
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