Several hundred migrants broke through police lines in Hungary on Tuesday in the latest incident at the tense main border crossing with Serbia, local media reports said.

The migrants were part of a group of 1,500 people who had been waiting for hours at a refugee collection point near the Roszke crossing, the first stop before people are brought to a registration camp.

They were among around 1,500 men, women and children who had been waiting for hours for buses to pick them up from a refugee collection point near the main crossing at Roszke in southern Hungary.

Footage showed two men being wrestled to the ground by police.

Some carrying small children, they ran through fields and began following train tracks towards the town of Szeged, with police following them but not attempting to stop them.

The break-out came after others had stormed two buses which came to take them from the collection point to a nearby registration centre.

It was the latest in a series of incidents on the EU member's southern border with Serbia, where more than 160,000 people have crossed this year.

On Monday, some 200 people pushed past a police line at the same collection point, with scuffles erupting throughout the day as migrants chanted "Freedom!"

The group walked some 15 kilometres (nine miles) along a motorway before police persuaded them to board buses to the registration centre.

And on Friday, police fired tear gas at migrants after some threw stones at officials at the registration camp.

Hungary's border with Serbia has become a major crossing point into the European Union for migrants and refugees in recent months.

Most seek to travel on to Germany via Austria.

Hungary recently completed construction of a razor-wire barrier along its 175-kilometre (110-mile) frontier with Serbia, but it has failed to stop large numbers of people getting through.

It is currently building an additional four-metre (13-foot) fence despite widespread criticism, with France's foreign minister saying the barrier does "not respect European values".

Source: AFP