Germany’s newspaper Die Welt quoted Munich police spokesman Thomas Baumann as saying Sunday that the surging number of new arrivals had forced Bavarian authorities to redirect migrant flows to Berlin, Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia.
"We have changed the route of trains from Vienna so that they do not stop in Munich but instead go into other federal states," Baumann said.
According to Maria Els, vice president of the government in Upper Bavaria, which includes Munich, 6,780 migrants arrived in the city on Saturday alone. Another 1,200 arrivals were registered overnight, with further 4,000 refugees expected to arrive on Sunday.
Thousands of refugees, fleeing conflicts and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea, set out Friday night toward the border with Austria, following a go-ahead from the Austrian and German governments, after they spent days stranded at the central railway station in Budapest.
