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Denmark Stops All Trains From Germany Amid Refugee Crisis

© REUTERS / Jens Norgaard Larsen/ScanpixDanish police guard a train carrying migrants, mainly from Syria and Iraq, at Rodby train station, south of Denmark, September 9, 2015. The migrants, hoping to get to Sweden, arrived at Rodby on Tuesday night and refused to leave the train to get registered in Denmark.
Danish police guard a train carrying migrants, mainly from Syria and Iraq, at Rodby train station, south of Denmark, September 9, 2015. The migrants, hoping to get to Sweden, arrived at Rodby on Tuesday night and refused to leave the train to get registered in Denmark. - Sputnik International
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Denmark stopped all railway operations with Germany amid refugee crisis, Reuters reported citing statement of Denmark's state owned train operator DSB.

According to the Danish railway company DSB's statement all train service with Germany has been halted due to exceptional passport checks at the border.

Syrian refugees and migrants along a railway line as they try to cross from Serbia into Hungary near Horgos on September 1, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Danish authorities undertook this measeure after the country's police stopped hundreds of refugees arriving by train from Germany.

Hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa have been attempting to reach European countries as they flee violence at home.

Earlier on Wednesday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called on EU member states to relocate 160,000 migrants throughout the bloc over the next two years.

Some 500,000 people have arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2015, many from Syria and Libya, Juncker said.

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