General view of migrant camp Vucjak in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
VUCJAK, Bosnia (Reuters) - Aid workers sounded the alarm on Wednesday about health and hygiene conditions in a makeshift forest camp in Bosnia for hundreds of migrants as they face the spread of scabies and other diseases as well as food shortages.
Over the past 10 days, municipal authorities in Bihac have moved up to 700 migrants from Asia and North Africa who had been sleeping rough in the town to an improvised tent settlement at a former landfill some 8 km (5 miles) from the Croatian border.
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