VIENNA: Trains packed with migrants arrived in Austria’s capital on Monday where 20,000 people turned out to show their support for the new arrivals. Police looked on as hundreds of migrants, many of them without visas, pulled into Vienna’s Westbahnhof station late in the evening before boarding trains to the Austrian city of Salzburg or on to Munich in southern Germany.

In a show of support for the migrants, 20,000 people took to the streets of Vienna on Monday evening to protest their ill-treatment, while senior government officials attended a church service for the victims of the truck tragedy. Holding up large banners reading “Refugees welcome” and “I don’t want Europe to be a mass grave,” demonstrators rallied at the Westbahnhof train station before marching as they sang songs about love and solidarity.

Authorities in Budapest have allowed the migrants, who had been stuck for days in makeshift refugee camps at the city’s stations, to board trains for their ultimate destinations in northern Europe. The trains were stopped at the Austrian border for several hours as part of a security crackdown after the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, were discovered in an abandoned lorry.