Budapest: Several hundred migrants stormed into Budapest’s main international train station early Thursday after police re-opened it following a two-day standoff, an AFP reporter said.

The main entrance was re-opened shortly before 08:15 am (0615 GMT) and migrants — some of the 2,000 or so stuck in Budapest since Tuesday — burst in, heading towards a train at one of the platforms, the AFP reporter said.

In a statement on Thursday, Hungary’s railway operator said no international trains be

leaving the Keleti station ‘for an indefinite period’.

On Wednesday, the refugees shouted ‘freedom, freedom’ and called to be let onto trains as Hungarian authorities said for a second day that they would prevent anyone without a valid visa from entering the station.

A spokesperson for the Hungarian government reiterated that: ‘In the territory of the EU, illegal migrants can travel onwards only with valid documents and observing EU rules.

‘A train ticket does not overwrite EU rules.’

The station has been open to Hungarians and tourists but refugees, even those with valid tickets, were turned away.

The chaotic scenes in Budapest came as the International Organisation for Migration published new figures revealing the scale of Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

Out of the 350,000 arrivals by sea so far this year, 234,770 alone were in Greece, the figures showed.

That figure by itself is more than the entire European total for all of 2014.