Drowned boy’s aunt fights to bring family to Canada

Tima Kurdi said through tears outside her home in Coquitlam, British Columbia, that she plans to help her brother, Abdullah, and her other siblings immigrate to the country she made home more than two decades ago. 

She says Abdullah isn’t ready to leave his Syrian hometown of Kobani, where his sons, 3-year-old <g data-gr-id="38">Aylan</g> and 5-year-old Ghalib, and wife <g data-gr-id="39">Rehanna</g> were buried on Friday. 

They drowned earlier this week after piling into an overloaded boat in Bodrum, Turkey, headed for the Greek island of Kos. Her brother was among the few survivors.

Meanwhile, Hungary’s police chief said on Saturday that buses were no longer being provided to transfer migrants to the Austrian border, calling the measure that brought thousands overnight a “one-off”. “The provision of buses towards Austria was a one-off and there will be no more vehicles sent to refugees walking along the road” towards Vienna, Karoly Papp told a news conference, quoted by state news agency MTI.

Overnight and on Saturday morning around 90 buses brought several thousand migrants to Hungary’s western border. Some 6,500 had crossed into Austria by early afternoon. Austria allowed them to cross over and provided special buses and trains to take them to Vienna, Salzburg and into Germany - the chosen destination for all but a handful. Hungary’s provision of buses followed a march yesterday towards Austria by around 1,200 migrants from Budapest’s Keleti train station, where thousands had been stranded for days, and several hundred people walking out of refugee camps.

On <g data-gr-id="35">Saturday</g> at least 500 people took part in another march from Keleti towards <g data-gr-id="33">Austria,</g> after around 800 migrants reportedly walked out of Hungary’s second largest refugee camp outside the eastern city of Debrecen.

Police prevented them from joining the M1 motorway, directing them onto a national road. An AFP photographer at the scene said the migrants were begging police to “please send us buses”.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has taken a hard line against the migrants, warning against the arrival of so many Muslims from a “profoundly different culture”, said on Saturday it was “unacceptable” for people to block motorways. 

The mass march came as the father of Syrian toddler <g data-gr-id="36">Aylan</g> <g data-gr-id="37">Kurdi</g>, whose drowning has shocked people around the world and underlined the human cost of Europe’s escalating refugee crisis, buried his family in their war-torn hometown of Kobane.

Hungary has in recent months joined Italy and Greece as a “frontline” state in Europe’s migrant 

crisis, with 50,000 people trekking up the western Balkans and entering the country in August alone.