Thursday push through a police barrier to continue their journey.

   Patrick Kingsley in Horgoš and agencies in Tovarnik

   Thursday 17 September 2015 15.57 BST Last modified on Friday 18
   September 2015 09.48 BST
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   Serbia, where thousands of people gathered on Thursday in and around
   the train station in blazing sunshine, waiting to board trains and
   buses.

   More than 100 riot police were deployed to control the growing crowds
   and keep them back from railway tracks. Clashes broke out as some
   people broke through police lines.

   “When we said corridors are prepared, we meant a corridor from Tovarnik
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   crying as buses and vans took them to Croatian reception centres.

   On the diplomatic side, the president of the European council, Donald
   Tusk, has summoned EU leaders to an extraordinary summit next Wednesday
   to discuss migration and a proposed scheme to redistribute 120,000
   asylum seekers across the bloc.

   On Monday, EU interior ministers failed to agree on a quota system
   designed to spread the burden of this year’s refugee crisis. The
   Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, reiterated on Thursday that his
   country did not consider mandatory quotas a solution.

   The Danish government, meanwhile, said it had voluntarily agreed to
   accept 1,000 of the 120,000 refugees the EU plans to relocate.

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   In a sign that pressure was growing on the EU’s other borders, Bulgaria
   began deploying 1,000 troops to the Turkish frontier, where several
   hundred people spent a third day stuck in Edirne, a border city.

   Austria introduced tighter controls on its eastern border, through
   which tens of thousands of people have passed on their way from Hungary
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   student from Hasakah in Syria. “We’ll go and find out what’s happening.
   Maybe we can cross, maybe we can’t. We live in hope.”

   Daoud and his friends said that nothing will stop people fleeing from
   war. Hamas Shekhmous, an 18-year-old high school student travelling
   with her two brothers, said: “We’re not afraid of anything because
   after Daesh [the Arab term for Islamic State] nothing scares us”.

   But some were a little more circumspect. Kawa, a 30-year-old
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