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Refugee Crisis: Hungary declares a state of emergency
Country causes chaos by closing its southern border to refugees

by Our Foreign Desk

HUNGARY declared a state of emergency yesterday and closed its southern border to refugees, declaring they must seek asylum where they are.

Queues of angry refugees formed on Serbia’s northern border after guards refused to let them cross.

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