UN agencies decry Hungarian border tightening

U.N. agencies have warned of dire conditions for migrants on the Serbia-Hungary border after Hungary this week adopted measures that severely restricting their flow. The U.N. in Serbia said Friday that after the new measures were introduced, "the number of refugees and migrants on the Serbian side of the border has doubled to above 1,300 _ the majority of them women and children." The new rules allow Hungarian police to return across the border to Serbia the migrants detained within 8 kilometers (5 miles) of the Hungarian border fences protected by razor wire. The UN says close to 800 asylum-seekers are now waiting in the open on the Serbian territory outside the fence lacking shelter and sanitation. More than 1 million migrants used the Balkan route to cross to Western Europe before it officially closed in March.