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Migrants heading for Europe shift to overland route

Record numbers of migrants have foregone a perilous Mediterranean crossing for an overland route through the Balkans, flooding Hungary's borders in the hopes that passage through the country's visa-free Schengen zone will speed their entry into Western Europe.

Hungary's borders have been flooded with asylum seekers from Syria and North Africa