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German police say that about 450 migrants from Hungary have arrived at a train station in Munich after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of asylum seekers allowed in.

Thousands more arrived in Austria, many en route to Germany, after the Hungarian government blocked them from leaving the country by train earlier this week. In all, some 10,000 people are expected to reach Munich.

, walking for hours toward the western border. They had covered up to 30 miles on foot — about one third of the way to the border — before the Hungarian government supplied buses to carry them. Authorities in Germany and Austria agreed to accept them.


But Hungary now says it has stopped providing buses for migrants to travel to Austria and Germany.

Kerry Skyring, reporting for NPR from Vienna, says the Budapest government says that providing buses was a one-off move to relieve an emergency situation.

"Once more hundreds have set out on foot from Budapest to walk to Vienna. Hundreds more are reported to have left a refugee camp in southern Hungary. Austria says it is coping well with new arrivals and is helping those who want to travel on to Germany while allowing others to apply for asylum in Austria," Kerry reports.

On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would not limit the number of people seeking asylum there. Officials predicted up to 800,000 would arrive by the end of the year, The Associated Press says.

"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," Merkel told the Funke consortium of newspapers.


Local volunteers in Nickelsdorf, Austria, gave water and bananas to the first busloads of refugees as they crossed the border in a drenching pre-dawn rain Saturday, reports The 

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The refugees from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere have been blocked for days from leaving Hungary.

Migrants arrive in Austria, Germany after being bused to border

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