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The video, shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the flashpoint Roszke camp on Wednesday, shows some 150 people wildly scrambling for bags of sandwiches thrown at them by Hungarian police wearing helmets and hygiene masks in a fenced-in enclosure inside a big hall.
Many migrants too far back in the crowd climbed onto the fence, waving and shouting to get the officers' attention.
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He told AFP they had driven to Roszke to bring food, clothes and medication to help the thousands of refugees pouring over the border.
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"It was inhumane and it really speaks for these people that they didn't fight over the food despite being clearly very hungry," Michaela Spritzendorfer said.
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The UN's refugee agency criticised the dire conditions at the Roszke camp earlier this week, with Hungary's hardline stance against migrants also angering other EU countries.
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Hungary's right-wing government in late August completed a razor-wire barrier along its 175-kilometre border with Serbia but it is not proving to be much of an obstacle for desperate people fleeing war in Syria and Iraq.
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