SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The number of illegal migrants passing through Bosnia to try to reach the richer states of the European Union rose sharply in the first nine months of 2017, a government agency said on Tuesday.
The Foreigners' Affairs Service said it had arrested 40 people in the past three days alone, on top of more than 600 since the start of the year - almost four times the number stopped over the same period a year earlier.
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