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More than 10,000 refugees stranded in Serbia as borders close, UNHCR says
Source: Reuters
More than 10,000 refugees stranded in Serbia as borders close, UNHCR says
Reuters in Berkasovo
Monday 19 October 2015 10.59 BST
More than 10,000 migrants are currently in Serbia, stranded by limits imposed further west in Europe, the UN refugee agency said on Monday, and warned of shortages in aid.
Thousands of people clamoured to enter Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to limit the flow of refugees into western Europe.
“We can only say that there are more than 10,000 refugees in Serbia,” UNHCR spokeswoman Melita Sunjic said. “It is like a big river of people, and if you stop the flow, you will have floods somewhere. That’s what’s happening now.”
“There is a lack of food, lack of blankets, we are missing everything,” Sunjic said.
The refugees at the border were held back by Croatian police, where refugee camps are full to capacity. In western Croatia, up to 2,000 more people spent the night on a train stranded near the border with fellow EU member Slovenia, which was refusing entry.
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Reuters in Berkasovo
Monday 19 October 2015 10.59 BST
More than 10,000 migrants are currently in Serbia, stranded by limits imposed further west in Europe, the UN refugee agency said on Monday, and warned of shortages in aid.
Thousands of people clamoured to enter Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to limit the flow of refugees into western Europe.
“We can only say that there are more than 10,000 refugees in Serbia,” UNHCR spokeswoman Melita Sunjic said. “It is like a big river of people, and if you stop the flow, you will have floods somewhere. That’s what’s happening now.”
“There is a lack of food, lack of blankets, we are missing everything,” Sunjic said.
The refugees at the border were held back by Croatian police, where refugee camps are full to capacity. In western Croatia, up to 2,000 more people spent the night on a train stranded near the border with fellow EU member Slovenia, which was refusing entry.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/refugees-stranded-on-serbian-croatian-border