Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Europe's Door
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About 4,000 people, mainly in their twenties, from the Middle East and Central Asia are now sleeping rough or staying in makeshift hostels close to Bosnia’s border with Croatia, most of them in Bihac and the frontier town of Velika Kladusa.
Aid groups say the summer heat, squalid conditions and deepening desperation of migrants in Bosnia are increasing the threat to their health, as they take greater risks to enter Croatia. The migrants are also making more frequent reports of alleged beatings by Croatian border guards, which authorities deny.
Bosnian has recorded the arrival of more than 9,000 migrants so far in 2018, well over 10 times the number counted in 2017. Of their numbers, several thousand are believed to have reached Croatia, many with the help of people smugglers.
Most of the migrants arrive in Bosnia after crossing overland from Turkey to Greece and travelling through Albania and Montenegro. This route emerged following moves by several Balkan countries to shut their frontiers to migrants in March 2016, after more than a million migrants from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa crossed the region in frontiers to migrants in March 2016, after more than a million people from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa crossed the region in 2015.
Aid groups say the summer heat, squalid conditions and deepening desperation of migrants in Bosnia are increasing the threat to their health, as they take greater risks to enter Croatia. The migrants are also making more frequent reports of alleged beatings by Croatian border guards, which authorities deny.
Bosnian has recorded the arrival of more than 9,000 migrants so far in 2018, well over 10 times the number counted in 2017. Of their numbers, several thousand are believed to have reached Croatia, many with the help of people smugglers.
Most of the migrants arrive in Bosnia after crossing overland from Turkey to Greece and travelling through Albania and Montenegro. This route emerged following moves by several Balkan countries to shut their frontiers to migrants in March 2016, after more than a million migrants from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa crossed the region in frontiers to migrants in March 2016, after more than a million people from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa crossed the region in 2015.
