Moment of despair: Refugees shut out

Hungarian policemen block passage while workers set up fence on the border with Serbia as refugees from Middle Eastern countries approach. (AFP)

Serbia-Hungary border, on foot, near Northern-Serbian town of Horgos. (AFP)

Lead by a local workes, the last part of the iron fence is transported by a train, at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. (AFP)

Migrants of different countries are diverted by Hungarian police officials ahead to the next point at the border between Hungary and Serbia near the village of Roszke. (AFP)

Last part of the iron fence is finished by a technical unit of the Hungarian Army at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. (AFP)

Migrants arriving from Hungary take a taxi to Vienna at the Austrian-Hungarian border near Nickeldorf. (AFP)

Two decades after western Europe began to abolish internal border controls, Germany installed impromptu checkpoints again, grappling with the continent's biggest wave of asylum-seekers since World War II. (AFP)

Refugees wait for buses after crossing the Austrian - Hungarian border near Heiligenkreuz, Austria. (AFP)

Migrants sit on the ground arrested by Hungarian police officers and soldiers after they tried to cross the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary. (AP)

Migrants wait in a train heading for the Austrian border, in Roszke, southern Hungary. (AP)

Refugees are waitingin  Nickelsdorf at the border to Hungary 70 kilometers (43 miles) southeast of Vienna, Austria. (AP)

Workers begin to erect a fence as Hungarian police officers close the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke. (AP)

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