tovaris
September 19th, 2015, 01:48 PM
BREZICE, Slovenia — Thousands of asylum seekers stranded in Croatia began to pour into neighboring Hungary and Slovenia on Saturday, as the stop-start mass migration across Europe continued, escorted out of the Balkans by rows of police in riot gear, watched over by circling helicopters and Humvees with mounted guns.
More than 20,000 war refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East and beyond awoke Saturday morning in Croatia having spent the night huddled in train stations, parking lots and rough camps alongside rivers.
They were uncertain when or where they would be permitted their trek. Hundreds crowded onto a bridge over the Sulta River, their passage blocked by Slovenian police. At a nearby checkpoint on the highway at Bregana, thousands more were penned into a waiting area alongside the highway.
Slowly, a busload at time, the migrants were permitted to enter Slovenia, one step closer to their ultimate destinations in Germany and Scandinavia.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/17000-asylum-seekers-stranded-in-croatia-with-nowhere-to-go/2015/09/19/ad6aae52-5c94-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html
More than 20,000 war refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East and beyond awoke Saturday morning in Croatia having spent the night huddled in train stations, parking lots and rough camps alongside rivers.
They were uncertain when or where they would be permitted their trek. Hundreds crowded onto a bridge over the Sulta River, their passage blocked by Slovenian police. At a nearby checkpoint on the highway at Bregana, thousands more were penned into a waiting area alongside the highway.
Slowly, a busload at time, the migrants were permitted to enter Slovenia, one step closer to their ultimate destinations in Germany and Scandinavia.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/17000-asylum-seekers-stranded-in-croatia-with-nowhere-to-go/2015/09/19/ad6aae52-5c94-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html