Hungary

Bulgaria has warned its citizens to avoid travel by train or road through the territory of Hungary due to concentration of refugees at the country's borders with Austria and Serbia.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry recommended to use alternative routes through Romania and Slovakia or via Serbia and Slovenia.

Around 3,800 soldiers have already been deployed at Hungary's southern border, Hungary's Defense Minister Istvan Simicsko said on Friday morning.

The soldier's main task is to help in the building of a fence along the border with Serbia, it has been announced.

A record number of refugees - as many as 5,000 - arrived to the reception center in Kanjiza, northern Serbia, in a single day, RTS said on Thursday morning.

At the same time, according to Hungarian police, 3,300 of them crossed into neighboring Hungary.

Hungarian Defence Minister Csaba Hende submitted his resignation on Monday as refugees continue to flock to the country.

According to a statement of the Hungarian government, Prime Minister Viktor Orban accepted the resignation and asked fellow Fidesz party member Istvan Simicsko to succeed Hende as defence minister, Daily News Hungary informs.

A refugee "uprising" in Hungary on Friday saw one group break through the fence of a reception center, and another deciding to go to Austria "on foot."

300 refugees in the center near the town of Roszke broke through the fence and headed toward the M5 highway, the Hungarian police said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Sept.3 that the wave of refugees and migrants coming to Europe and the EU's "failed immigration policy" threaten to undermine the continent's Christian roots.

Hundreds of migrants protested in Budapest on Wednesday at Hungary's decision to prevent them from travelling to Germany and other EU member states, the BBC reported.

The protests, now in their second day, have begun after Hungarian authorities banned travel for migrants without valid documents in order to comply with EU rules.

The Hungarian police in Budapest continue to block the main train station for some 3,000 refugees who wish to travel to western European countries.

Many have spent the night in front of the station.

The Foreign Ministry in Sofia confirmed on Friday that three Bulgarian citizens have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the grim discovery in a truck in Austria, in which the dead bodies of dozens of migrants were found.

Hungary is considering using the army to secure its southern border "where record numbers of migrants are streaming into the EU," Reuters reported.

“Hungary's government and national security cabinet has discussed the question of how the army could be used to help protect Hungary's border and the EU's border,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said.