Migrants stranded in open air in Bosnia after relocation fails


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  • Thursday, 31 Dec 2020

Migrants walk towards the forest after camp quotLipaquot was closed in Bihac Bosnia and Herzegovina December 30 2020. REUTERSDado Ruvic

Migrants walk towards the forest after camp "Lipa" was closed, in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina December 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia after fire wrecked their temporary camp failed, police and migrants said.

Fire destroyed Camp Lipa, near the town of Bihac in western Bosnia, last week. The migrants were supposed to be transferred to the town of Bradina, about 320 km away in central Bosnia.

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