'Croatia will not be able to receive more people,' interior minister says after more than 7,000 migrants entered the country from Serbia since Wednesday.
Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic asked the army on Thursday to be ready, if necessary, to protect national borders from illegal migration, the state news agency Hina reported.
"Croatia's president met the army chief of staff and required a higher level of alert and the army and to be ready, if need be, to protect the national borders from the illegal migration," Hina reported.
Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said earlier on Thursday that Croatia could not cope with a flood of migrants seeking a new route into the European Union after Hungary kept them out by erecting a fence and using tear gas and water cannon against them.
Croatia, the EU's newest member state, said it may try to stop taking in migrants just as the 28-nation bloc announced its leaders would hold an emergency summit on Sept. 23 to try to resolve the migration crisis, which has deeply divided it.
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