BBC: Migrants Stuck in Bosnia

BOSNIA BALKANS MIGRANTS
A migrant women from Iraq feeds her grandson in front of the railway station in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Some hundreds of migrants have been camping at the railway station in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo waiting for an opportunity to get to Croatia and Western Europe. Amel Emric / AP Photo
BOSNIA BALKANS MIGRANTS
A migrant women from Iraq feeds her grandson in front of the railway station in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Some hundreds of migrants have been camping at the railway station in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo waiting for an opportunity to get to Croatia and Western Europe. Amel Emric / AP Photo

BBC: Migrants Stuck in Bosnia

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Increasing numbers of migrants are using a new route to reach the European Union. They’re travelling through Albania and Montenegro to Bosnia - and then trying to cross into Croatia. Thousands are now stuck in Bosnia. The Bosnian government provides very little help. Families are left to fend for themselves, sleeping in a dilapidated dormitory, which was shelled during war in the 1990s. BBC’s Balkans Correspondent, Guy De Launey, reports from Bihac (Bee-hatch), Bosnia.