SARAJEVO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A joint patrol by border police of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia prevented an attempt to smuggle eight migrants across the border, the BiH Border Police said Thursday.
The incident occurred near Posusje in southwestern BiH during a joint operation. Officers stopped and inspected a Peugeot passenger vehicle with a BiH license plate driven by a Georgian citizen born in 1999.
Authorities said the migrants included two citizens of Türkiye, five Azerbaijani citizens and one Russian citizen.
Police arrested the Georgian driver on suspicion of human smuggling and temporarily seized the vehicle and other evidence on the order of a prosecutor.
The suspect was later handed over to the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, while the migrants were transferred to the Service for Foreigners' Affairs of BiH with a proposal for expulsion measures.
According to a recent survey by the International Organization for Migration, Sudan, Afghanistan and Egypt were the main countries of origin of the migrants in BiH in the first quarter of this year.
The report said 58 percent of respondents entered BiH from Serbia, while 39 percent crossed from Montenegro.
