Migrants moved from Bosnian town to camp at former garbage dump


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Jun 2019

VUCJAK, Bosnia (Reuters) - Up to 700 migrants from Asia and the Middle East who had been sleeping rough in the Bosnian town of Bihac have been moved to a camp on the site of a former garbage dump near the Croatian border that has been criticised as inadequate by UN agencies.

A few dozen newly-erected white tents could be seen on Wednesday in a meadow surrounded by trees and bushes and guarded by police. In scorching heat, migrants queued for food and used water from tanks to wash and shave themselves.

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