ZAGREB, March 10, 2020 – Since the beginning of the year Bosnia and Herzegovina’s border police have prevented more than 1,600 migrants from illegally entering the country from Serbia and Montenegro, the Dnevni Avaz daily reported on Tuesday.
By 8 March there were a total of 1,656 attempts of illegal entry recorded.
According to information from the county’s border police, more than 1,300 people attempted to cross the border in the area of Zvornik in eastern Bosnia.
Most of the irregular migrants come for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
The border police have assessed that this is somewhat less pressure by migrants considering the winter period and colder weather however the authorities believe that that situation will change with the spring weather when the number of migrants attempting to cross the border and travel on to Western countries, could increase.
In 2019, the border police prevented a little more than 13,000 attempts of illegal entry into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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