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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 18, 2019, 12:04:39 pm
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Migrants Still Trekking Into Croatia Despite Winter Cold
Anja Vladisavljevic
Undeterred by the freezing weather, migrants and refugees are still attempting to cross over from Bosnia and Herzegovina to EU-member Croatia.
A representative of the International Organization for Migration, IOM, Peter Van der Auweraert, told BIRN that the rate of border crossings was slightly lower now – but that people were still trying to cross the Bosnia-Croatia border every day.
Croatian police on Wednesday said they rescued 15 migrants, including six children, who got stuck on Mt Pljesevica in Croatia, on the border with Bosnia, in deep snow and low temperatures. They were taken to a Croatian hospital.
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