Croatia will redirect migrants to Hungary border: PM

The decision came after the refugees and asylum seekers switched routes from Hungary to Croatia after the government in Budapest dramatically increased security at its borders. Stay in refugee centers in Serbia and Macedonia and Greece.

Thousands of people were pouring into Croatia on Thursday, turning it into the latest hotspot in the 1600-kilometre plus exodus toward Western Europe after Hungary used tear gas, batons and water cannons to keep refugees out.

Apart from one border with their fellow European nation, Croatia has closed every entrance to the country from Serbia, after 11,000 immigrants arrived on their doorstep. Hundreds of soldiers and police have been deployed to the area.

European Council President Donald Tusk summoned EU leaders to a summit on Wednesday to discuss how to better manage external EU borders and help Turkey, through which numerous migrants are passing, as well as other states that are housing Syrian refugees.

The Hungarian authorities have sent buses to pick them and take them to registration facilities at Vamosszabadi near the Slovak border or Szentgotthard by the Austrian border, Hungarian National Police Force spokesperson Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said.

Croatia said it might have to use the army to stop thousands of migrants criss-crossing the western Balkans in their quest for sanctuary.

German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a newspaper interview that Germany, Austria, Sweden and Italy can not bear all the burden of migrants coming to Europe, but some countries, mostly in eastern Europe, have opposed consensus on the distribution of migrants according to pre-determined quotas.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic also condemned what he said was Hungary’s “brutal treatment” of the migrants.

Croatia has closed seven of the eight road border crossings it shares with Serbia as police struggle to cope with the huge influx of migrants and refugees.

Numerous migrants are fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The migrants went to war outside the train and bus station in the Croatian town of Beli Manastir.

On the same day, the conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that his country would built a fence on the border with Croatia.