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Hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in Budapest for days have started marching towards Austria on foot
Set out from Keleti railway station after Hungarian authorities blocked them from boarding western-bound trains
Meanwhile, a stand-off continued for a second day at the station in Bicske, a town north west of Budapest
Migrants have escaped from two refugee camps and made a dash for the border as chaos gripped the country

By Simon Tomlinson and Jenny Stanton For Mailonline

Published: 07:55 GMT, 4 September 2015 | Updated: 14:36 GMT, 4 September 20153.4k shares

Hundreds of furious migrants who have been stuck in Budapest for days have started marching out of the city, vowing to make it to Austria on foot.

Carrying their belongings, they set out from Keleti railway station after Hungarian authorities blocked them from boarding western-bound trains.

They snaked through the capital in a line stretching nearly half a mile as they began the 100-mile journey to the Austrian border.

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Angry: Hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in Budapest for days have started marching out of the city in a bid to make it to Austria

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The migrants snaked through the capital in a line stretching nearly half a mile as they began the 100-mile journey to the Austrian border

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Set out from the railways station carrying their belongings after Hungarian authorities blocked them from boarding western-bound trains

The refugees are trying to avoid registering in Hungary, which is economically depressed and more likely to return them to their home countries than many western European nations.

One man, 23-year-old Osama Morzar, from Aleppo, Syria, was so determined not to be registered in Hungary that he removed his fingerprints with acid, holding up smooth finger pads as proof.

'The government of Hungary is very bad,' said Mr Morzar. 'The United Nations should help.'

Conditions are becoming more squalid at the station as 3,000 people remain camped out as they wait for a decision by Hungarian authorities on their fates. Some families pitched tents, with children playing nearby.

Meanwhile, a stand-off continued for a second day at the station in Bicske, a town north west of Budapest that holds one of the country's five camps for asylum seekers.

Hundreds of people sat on a train there, some with tickets they had purchased to Berlin or Vienna. Although some eventually relented and registered at the asylum centre, most were determined not to.

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Hundreds of migrants pictured marching through the streets of Budapest having remained in the city for days because they are not allowed to get on trains heading west

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Migrants cross the Erzsebet bridge in Budapest, Hungary, as they head for Austria on foot after not being allowed to travel by train

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'The situation is so bad,' said Adnan Shanan, a 35-year-old from Latakia, Syria. 'We have so many sick people on the train. We have pregnant women, no food, no water.

'We don't need to stay here one more day. We need to move to Munich, to anywhere else, we can't stay here. We can't wait until tomorrow. We need a decision today, now.'

Furious at their treatment, they began chanting 'Germany! Germany!' – their intended destination after a treacherous journey of hundreds miles.

Others brandished placards with the words 'SOS' and 'Help!' while another held by a child read: 'I need to go to Germany for life.' Police handed out water bottles but some migrants poured it onto the ground in disgust. Children were handed cuddly toys by authorities.

And hundreds of migrants have escaped from two refugee camps in the country and made a dash for the border as chaos gripped the country.

In farcical scenes, dozens of families clambered over a fence at a processing reception near the town of Bicske just moments after they had been dropped off on buses by the Hungarian authorities.