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Some 400-500 migrants on Wednesday broke through police lines in Hungary near the main crossing point from Serbia, AFP reporters at the scene said. The incident took place at the flashpoint town of Roszke where migrants have to wait at a collection point before being taken to a nearby centre for registration.

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Migrants breake through a police line near a collection point of Roszke village at the Hungarian-Serbian border.Attila Kisbenedek/AFP / Getty Images

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Police with dogs try to contain hundreds of refugees who marched out of the collection point of Roszke near the border of Hungary and Serbia.David Maurice Smith

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Hungarian police escort migrants back to a collection point in the village of Roszke.Marko Djurica/Reuters

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Hungarian policemen watch migrants near a collection point in Roszke, Hungary.Marko Djurica/Reuters

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Migrants' tents are blown off by the wind near a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary.Marko Djurica/Reuters

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Migrants and refugees who arrived from Serbia face Hungarian police officers at a collection point near the border village of Roszke.Zoltan Gergely Kelemen/The Associated Press

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People wake up in a camp at the border line between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary.Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press

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A young migrant boy clowns as he crosses the hungarian-serbian border with his family near Roszke, southern Hungary.Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press

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A migrant helps another migrant to pass under a fence after they broke through a police line near a collection point of Roszke.Attila Kisbenedek/AFP / Getty Images

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Migrants try to break through police lines before running over a motorway from a collection point that had been set up to transport people to camps in Roszke village at the Hungarian-Serbian border.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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