From Sky News:
Hungary has confiscated a Croatian train that tried to transport 1,000 migrants into the country - describing its arrival as a breach of EU law.
Budapest said 40 police officers accompanying the 1,000 migrants were disarmed and sent back to their homeland during the "major, major incident" - though Croatia denied weapons had been taken.
The migrants are being transferred from the town of Magyarboly to a reception camp, while Hungary claimed it had arrested the train driver.
Hungary has stated repeatedly that it will charge such migrants with illegal entry and expel them back to the country from which they arrived.
The train's seizure is the latest development in a spat between Croatia and Hungary which has left the fate of thousands of migrants uncertain.
Croatia's foreign minister, Vesna Pusic, had told Sky News that the countries had agreed "to provide a corridor", adding that "all these people want to go to Germany or northern Europe".
But Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told Sky News' Mark Stone this was a "lie". More than 4,000 migrants were sent from Croatia to Hungary on Friday after officials in Zagreb said the country did not have capacity to accommodate the 17,000 who had arrived since Wednesday.
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