DHAKA: The Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency to cope with the influx of refugees, as almost 10,000 people were detained for illegally crossing the border from Serbia.

Police said, reports Al Jazeera.

On Tuesday, police also detained at least 60 people claiming to be Syrian and Afghan refugees after they illegally crossed the border with Serbia, police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has indicated that asylum requests from refugees trying to enter Hungary from Serbia will be rejected, because Serbia is a safe country where refugees do not risk war or persecution.

Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from the Hungarian border town of Roszke, said there is desperation among refugees at the border.

‘It is more of a crisis now more than ever for the refugees,’ Simmons said, adding that neighboring Romania is also reportedly considering building its own fence.

Meanwhile, Serbia was talking to the Hungarian government about the build-up of refugees on their frontier, a Serbian government minister said, adding Budapest would ‘have to open the border’.

Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia’s minister in charge of tackling the refugee crisis, did not elaborate.

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