Saturday, September 12, 2015
The flight: refugees head for the west - in pictures
Photographer Antonio Olmos has spent the last week documenting the refugee crisis for the Guardian and Observer. He has been in Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece recording the effect that the flight from persecution and conflict has had on the mostly Syrian people and the obstacles they have to overcome to reach a better life. Here is a selection of his work
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- Golezar Sidour, 33, is photographed at Keleti station in Budapest. ‘I would rather walk, and die on the road, than live here,’ Sidour says, on only her second day at the increasingly filthy and crowded plaza that has become a makeshift refugee camp. ‘They give us food and drink but we are frightened that people will come and attack us’. Read other stories from Keleti station here
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- Refugees board buses that will finally take them to Austria after days of being stranded. The Hungarian government chartered dozens of buses to take the refugees away in the middle of the night. It took under three hours to empty the station of almost all its refugeesPhotograph: Antonio Olmos
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