Police in North Macedonia have reportedly detained 81 migrants found in a truck near the country's border with Serbia. The driver of the vehicle had apparently ignored a police warning to stop for a check. He later abandoned the vehicle.
The small town of Bihac near Bosnia's border with Croatia is facing a growing migrant influx. The Red Cross says that the central government isn't doing enough.
Two Afghan migrants who were arrested with three others from the same country in February on terrorism charges in Bosnia will be deported to Serbia, where they were last registered and where local institutions say they do not pose a threat.
The Bosnian government said 21,000 migrants have entered the country since the beginning of the year. The authorities said all of the country's reception centers are full, and they denounced the growing problems of lack of food and medicine.
One person died in Croatia after a van carrying 12 migrants plunged into a river. The driver of the van that was registered in Germany fled the scene, leaving the vehicle to sink into the river. Separately, police in North Macedonia discovered 30 migrants in an abandoned truck.
The European Union promised 10 million euros in aid to Bosnia. The funds are earmarked to build new reception centers and support the more than 7,000 migrants currently based in the Balkan state.
Eighteen migrants were injured while trying to reach the European Union across Bosnia's border with Croatia, local media and police said on Wednesday. The case has been put under the jurisdiction of the state prosecutor.
Over the past year, many migrants trying to cross into the EU through unofficial border crossings between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have reported brutal treatment by Croatian border police. In a recent TV interview, the Croatian president admitted border guards were forcing migrants back over the border. InfoMigrants takes a look at the situation.
Dragan Lukac, Interior Minister of the Serbian-majority part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (also known as Republika Srpska) said that he would not allow for migrant reception centers to be set up in his territory after growing calls to redistribute migrants within Bosnia.
A person claiming to be a Croatian policeman has sent an anonymous letter claiming that they receive orders to confiscate migrants' money and destroy their cell phones.
Croatia has consistently denied illegally deporting refugees to neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. But in a recent TV interview, the Croatian president admitted border guards were forcing migrants back over the border.
Controversy has erupted in Bosnia over a government proposal to deploy military units to the borders with Serbia and Montenegro, in order to physically block migrants from illegally crossing and entering the country.