CRI听力:10,000 Syrian Refugees to Arrive in Germany

Officials say around 6-thousand migrants had passed through Munich by Saturday evening. Some 1,700 are being sent directly onward to places outside Bavaria.

The remaining 4,300 were either given temporary accommodation in Munich, or taken on buses to other locations in Bavaria, Germany's biggest state.

Thousands of asylum seekers reached Germany and Austria on Saturday after a surprise overnight effort by authorities to transport them out of Hungary, where they had been stuck for days.

Authorities say up to 10,000 migrants were expected to arrive in Germany on special trains from Budapest via Vienna and Munich.

The Munich residents handed out information leaflets and aid, while clapping hands with the migrants as they walked past.

Local resident Barbara Luehers says they have so much to give in Germany and it is time to help.

"We are living so well and we can finally help them, these people - it is just that we have to give them what we can, we have to show them they are welcome, and it is terrible how they were treated in Hungary."

Germany's interior ministry has said Berlin's decision to open its borders for Syrians is an exceptional case made out of humanitarian reasons.

It said in a communiqué that Europe's so-called Dublin rules, which require migrants to apply for asylum in the first European Union country they arrive, had not been suspended.

Simon Hegewald, police spokesman for the German federal police at Munich station, says the local government has made every effort to smoothen the refugee transfer.

"We have already, as of 16.00 two more trains with several hundred new migrants who have due to arrive. We get the prognoses with short notice, one or one and a half hours beforehand they left us know how many migrants there actually are on board the train. So the federal police will be employing massive reinforcements of police officers at the station around this time."

Bavarian Social Minister Emilia Mueller says the resettlement of Syrian refugees is a Germany-wide issue.

"It is a concentrated effort, we are dealing with the situation, we all have to work together, it is a Germany-wide issue and a responsibility for the whole of Germany."

Europe is struggling to cope with a flood of migrants and refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and beyond.

About 350,000 migrants and refugees have reached the border of the European Union this year. The European nations are groping for solutions amid sharp divisions over burden-sharing.

For CRI, I'm Xie Cheng.