Fully 4,994 refugees entered Hungary at the Ukraine-Hungary border on Thursday, while 4,404 came to the country via Romania, according to the national police headquarters (ORFK). Police issued temporary residence permits valid for 30 days to 63 people, ORFK said on Friday. Budapest received 16 people, 9 children among them, who arrived by train.
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