Migrants continue to arrive on the Croatian border

Refugees and migrants continue to flock to the border dividing Serbia from Croatia.

There has been no let-up in their numbers.

Officials in Zagreb say 73,500 men, women and children have arrived on the border in the last 11 days alone.

Visiting the transit camp at Opatovic, Croatia’s Defence Minister urged Serbia to help monitor the flow.

Arrivals walk across the frontier on foot and are then taken by bus to a nearby transit camp. Once inside the camp, they register for a place on a train heading for Hungary or Slovenia.

Croatia says it is struggling to cope with the influx.
Zagreb says it can handle up to 5,000 a day – but the current number is more like 7,000.

One in 10 needs medical assistance when they arrive. Many are trying to make their journey before the winter weather arrives.

“I want to go to Sweden or Germany,” one man told reporters, “life is better there. Better than our city. I come from Aleppo in Syria. There is no life there, it is war. There is nowhere