Story highlights
- Hungarian police drive migrants back with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons
- Photos detail the heartbreaking aftermath for migrant children
At the Hungarian-Serbian border (CNN)No wonder the children cry.
They're thousands of miles from home, wandering from country to country, sleeping on the ground. They have no toys. Some lost their shoes.
The danger and futility of the European migrant crisis was once again captured in photos of the youngest travelers.
On Wednesday, a group of migrants massed on the Serbian-Hungarian border, seeking to enter the European Union.
A migrant girl has stinging chemicals washed from her eyes Wednesday in Horgos, Serbia.
Hungary had sealed the final hole in its border with Serbia on Tuesday, shutting off a popular route for tens of thousands of people in Europe's migrant crisis.
The move left desperate men, women and children -- most fleeing violence in the Middle East -- blocked from entering Hungary by a razor-wire fence.
A girl cries after Hungarian police use tear gas and water cannons on migrants at the border.
At Horgos, Serbia, they forced their way through, some adults carrying children in their arms or pulling them by the hand.
Hungarian police drove them back with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons.