Hungarian authorities have reopened the main international railway station in the capital, Budapest, to hundreds of asylum seekers heading to Germany and other European Union countries.

The asylum seekers rushed into the Keleti station as soon as the doors opened and police forces withdrew from their positions on Thursday morning, two days after it was closed due to a huge influx of refugees demanding free passage to wealthier European Union states such as Germany and Austria.

People, according to local media, were seen trying to push themselves and their children into the carriages through doors.

However, local authorities at the scene said no international trains will be travelling to Western Europe due to “railway transport” security reasons for “an indefinite period.”

“In the interests of rail travel security the company has decide that until further notice, direct train services from Budapest to western Europe will not be in service,” the Hungarian Railways said in a statement.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, clashes broke out between police and the asylum seekers stuck there because Hungary had decided to prevent people without a valid visa from entering the station.

Hungary is a key destination for tens of thousands of asylum seekers entering the European Union. Around 50,000 arrived in the country last month alone.

The development comes as Hungary’s anti-refugee Prime Minister Viktor Orban is in Brussels for talks on the crisis alongside senior diplomats from other EU member countries.

In a joint news conference with Orban in Brussels, European Union leader Donald Tusk urged members of the 28-nation bloc to distribute at least 100,000 refugees between them to help ease the pressure on frontlines states.

“Accepting more refugees is an important gesture of real solidarity. Fair distribution of at least 100,000 refugees among the EU states is what in fact we need today,” Tusk said.

He also warned that a rift between the EU’s eastern and western member states is hampering efforts to resolve the crisis, calling for closer cooperation among the eurozone states to deal with the problem at source.

Addressing a conference of EU ambassadors, Tusk described the flow of asylum seeker as one of the major challenges facing the bloc.

“I am working with leaders to build a new consensus among governments on the EU response,” said Tusk, adding that the “first goal is to ensure people in need of international protection receive it. Second, we must gain more control of mass population flows.”

Germany, Italy and France called for “fair distribution” of refugees throughout the EU on Wednesday.

The number of asylum seekers entering Europe has reached record levels.

Germany is expected to take in about 800,000 refugees this year, four times the annual average it usually takes in.

Many of the asylum seekers are people from the Middle East and North Africa seeking refuge from the political crisis and violence in their home countries.