Eu Ministers To Meet On Migrants As Drowned Boy's Father Speaks

Brussels (AFP) - European Union foreign ministers were set to meet Friday to discuss the continent's escalating migrant crisis, after the father of a Syrian toddler found dead on a beach spoke of how his children "slipped through my hands" as their boat sank.The heartbreaking images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead in the surf have ramped up pressure on political leaders to address Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.As politicians squabbled over how many refugees each country should take, an ugly standoff in Hungary underscored the plight of desperate people fleeing conflict in Syria.In the town of Biscke, police halted a train carrying hundreds of refugees hoping to get to the Austrian border.An estimated 200 to 300 people refused to get onto buses that state news agency MTI reported would take them to a nearby processing camp.Furious at their treatment and feeling they had been tricked onto the train, they began chanting "Germany!

 

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