Budapest (dpa) - Hungary's government said on Thursday it is closing two controversial transit camps where asylum seekers are held in shipping containers surrounded by high fences and barbed wire.

The approximately 280 people in the Roszke and Tompa camps have already been taken to other facilities for asylum seekers, right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said.

The decision follows a ruling last week by the top EU court that found the detention practices could amount to a breach of the bloc's law.

Budapest has come under fire from Brussels for its hardline migration approach, which has been repeatedly challenged before the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice.

Gulyas said the government did not agree with the court's ruling but was complying with it.