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Hungary starts building fence on border with Croatia

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Hungary began building a fence on its border with Croatia overnight to stem a flow of migrants and has already deployed hundreds of soldiers and police on the border, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio on Friday.

 

He said a fast-solution fence will be finished on the critical 41-kilometre stretch of the border -- where the two countries are not divided by a river -- by the end of Friday.

 

"We must implement the same measures as on the Serbian-Hungarian border," Orban said, adding that at this point 600 soldiers had worked on the fence, and a further 500 will be deployed on Friday and 700 more over the weekend.

 

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