Migrants at Velika Kladusa camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina
BELGRADE - A camp for illegal migrants in Velika Kladusa in the far northwest of Bosnia-Herzegovina along the border with Croatia was cleared on Thursday of the approximately 300 people present.
The migrants were moved to a new reception center in Lipa, set up in recent months near Bihac, just south of Velika Kladusa.
In reporting the news, regional media said that the operation had been conducted with the intervention of the local police and that no incidents had resulted.
The camp in question had sprung up in 2018 amid continual arrival of migrants along the so-called Balkan Route on their way towards Croatia and then western Europe.
The Lipa reception center was built with funding from the international community and can host up to 1,500 migrants with adequate conditions even in winter.
The local police estimate that fewer than 3,000 illegal migrants are currently in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
