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Battles on the border as migrants try to force way into Hungary

Hungarian riot police fired teargas and turned water cannon on migrants yesterday as a key crossing point into the European Union became a battleground.

Migrants desperate to cross into the EU near the Hungarian town of Roszke threw stones and bottles as hundreds of people found their way blocked by the barriers and coils of razor wire that have been used to seal the country’s border with Serbia. Two children were injured when they were thrown over the fence, a Hungarian official said. Twenty police officers were injured.

Thousands of other migrants have already given up hope of breaching the 109-mile border with Serbia and have instead headed west, hoping to enter Hungary via Croatia. However, they face two obstacles: minefields left over from the