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TEHRAN, June 18 - Bosnian border police have stopped about 100 migrants from reaching the border with European Union member Croatia.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Police on Monday blocked the migrants near the border crossing in northwestern Bosnia.
Local media say police are trying to persuade the migrants to turn back.
The group has moved toward Croatia from the nearby town of Velika Kladusa where hundreds have been staying in makeshift camps while looking for ways to reach Western Europe.
Peter Van der Auweraert, from the International Organization for Migration, tweeted that the attempted group crossing is a "very worrying development that risks to create backlash that is not in interest of anyone."
Migrants have recently turned to Bosnia in order to avoid more heavily guarded routes through the Balkans.
The international Red Cross says that the number of people migrating through the Balkans is on the rise and they are in dire need of basic humanitarian support.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Monday that more than 5,600 migrants entering Europe through Greece have reached Bosnia and Herzegovina so far this year, compared with only 754 in all of 2017.
The Red Cross also said that in Montenegro, 557 asylum requests were registered in May, the highest monthly figure in five years.
Simon Missiri, regional director for Europe, said his group's Balkan offices need more assistance to help cope with the increased number of migrants.
Since peaking in 2015, the migrants' use of the Balkan route toward Western Europe has been impaired in part by Hungary's construction of razor-wire fences on its southern borders.
Source: AP
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