"Two days before the August 31,2015 deadline, the first section of the border closure has been completed," the ministry said in a statement
The barrier consisting of three
rolls of razor wire along the 175-kilometre frontier is however failing
to prevent people getting across
A
four-metre-high (13-foot) fence is due to follow and is already being
built by the Hungarian army which will "also provide a defence against
illegal border-crossers," the defence ministry said.
Around
1,000 border police currently control the border, and 2,000 more are
due to be in operation from September 1, 2015 the government says.
Hungary,
a member of the European Union and of the visa-free Schengen zone, has
this year intercepted more than 140,000 migrants entering from Serbia.
The vast majority have trekked
up through the western Balkans and want to travel onwards to western
European countries like Germany and Sweden.
Prime
Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government has been criticised by
Brussels for building the barrier, which it announced in June it would
construct.
Hungarian
police positioned nearby watch as Syrian migrants climb under a fence to
enter Hungary at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary
Migrants stand on the Serbian side of the fence near a Hungarian police
officer near the Hungarian village of Asotthalom on August 27, 2015
Hungarian police inspect a barbed wire fence on the border with Serbia, in Roszke, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015
Hungarian soldiers build a fence on the Hungarian - Serbian border near Asotthalom, Hungary on Monday Aug. 10, 2015
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