Slovenia, which unlike Croatia is a member of Europe’s Schengen zone of border-free travel, said it had turned back roughly another 100 who tried to cross from Croatia under cover of night.
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But Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said the country had “limited capacity” after the country closed its borders.
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic asked the country’s military to be on higher alert and be ready to act if needed to protect the border from the migrants. He appealed to the European Union to step in and help.
Hungary, which has been the transit route for over 180,000 migrants this year, has built a 3.5-metre (10-foot) fence on its frontier with Serbia and implemented a raft of immigration laws to clamp down on migration.
“They are the people who are fleeing the violence and persecution, we must ensure our compassionate leadership”.
Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, called the Croatian prime minister’s handing of the migrant crisis “pathetic”, the MTI news agency reported. “And I’d also like to make it very clear, no matter what criticism I receive, that we will never allow such aggressive people to enter Hungary“, he added.
It comes just a day after Croatia warned it did not have the resources to cope with an influx of migrants. However, Germany has said that the whole of Europe needs to work together and take some of the hundreds of thousands of people trying to find safer lands. The station was overwhelmed and people slept along the side of the tracks.
Ahmad said he wants to join his mother, who already is in Germany, and that he wants to study to work in the medical profession. “We don’t know what is happening”, he said.
Thousands of desperate men, women and children are continuing their journeys through Europe after overrunning riot police at the Croatian border.
Meanwhile, Slovenia – the next country on the migrant route to Western Europe – has been returning migrants to Croatia and has stopped all rail traffic between the two countries. “Kicking this can down the road, kicking these people down the road is obviously no answer”, Miliband said. The barrier is concentrated on a 25-mile section of the border where the two countries are not separated by a river.
“We are coming with our modest Islamic perspectives”.
In addition, he said he would deploy 1,800 soldiers and 800 police to the border with Croatia over the next days to keep out migrants.
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Bordering Slovenia are also unwilling to take in the migrants, saying any that get through from Croatia will simply be sent back.
