VIENNA, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Thousands of migrants reached Austria by bus on Saturday morning, where many may apply for asylum or move forward to Germany.
Some 5,000 migrants, many fleeing Syria, were bused to the Austrian border by the Hungarian government after it gave up on trying to stop them, instead deciding to help them safely traverse the land. The Hungarian government provided 90 buses to take them from Budapest's main railroad station as an "extraordinary one-time measure." Many will stay in Austria, while about 1,000 others set off on foot from Budapest to reach Germany.