UPDATE ON THE REFUGEE CRISIS AS THOUSANDS TREK 150MILES. SAYS THEY WILL DROP DEAD THAN NOT TRYING.

After four days of being forcibly camped outside a train station in Budapest,hundreds of men and women gathered their families and what little belongings they have to march across Europe.

The Mirror joined them as they left Keleti station shortly after midday amid cheers of "Austria, Austria" after it became clear they would not be granted permission to board trains and travel to Western Europe.

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Migrants set off on foot for the border with Austria from Budapest, Hungary

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The refugees are carrying everything they own with them as they make the journey

Around 3,000 migrants and refugees had been forced to sleep rough outside the rail station in Budapest centre from Monday after being refused permission to get on trains.

Now many are walking along a busy and dangerous motorway along a route which may take up to two weeks to complete.

Musa Hal, 36, from Syria gathered his three brothers and one sister this morning to make the journey.

As he walked in the baking 26C heat along the M7 motorway outside Budapest he said: "The people of Hungary do not want to help so we have no choice. "We will walk till we drop. We have suffered so this is just another stop along the way." Many of the migrants speak of reaching Vienna in Austria and then on to Munich in Germany. 

Hungarian police are struggling to deal with the wave of migrants walking as many as 20 wide across the hard shoulder of the hectic motorway as astonished motorists watched on.

In the village of Bicske, about 30 miles away from Budapest, up to 300 migrants held at the railway station escaped today, state news agency MTI said, the third such breakout of the day as police struggle to control swelling crowds.

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Migrants walk along busy Hungarian motorway

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Police have held the migrants at Bicske since Thursday, refusing the let them travel to Austria, and riot police were called in on Friday to control the crowd.

Refugees have been travelling across Eastern Europe from Turkey to Hungary where they hope to get trains on to Austria and then Germany.

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Police vehicles are travelling alongside the refugees

In the wake of the tragedy, David Cameron has bowed to pressure from the public and his own MPs and announced plans to let 'thousands' more Syrian refugees come to the UK today.

The Prime Minister faced a wave of outrage yesterday, after he took more than 24 hours to respond to the shocking pictures of Aylan's body lying on a Turkish beach.

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Refugees begging to be allowed to travel to Austria and Germany at Keleti train station

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A child sleeps on the streets outside the train station

More than 370,000 people have signed a petition calling on David Cameron to accept more refugees to the UK, and the hashtag #refugeeswelcome has been trending on Twitter.

The UK has allowed around 5,000 refugees from Syria to enter in the last four years. Another 216 were allowed in under a new UN 'Vulnerable People Relocation' scheme launched in 2014 in response to the migrant crisis.

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