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Slovenia Shuts Croatian Border Due to Migrant Influx

© REUTERS / Laszlo BaloghPolice try to stop migrants pushing to enter a bus at the Croatia-Slovenia border crossing at Bregana, Croatia, September 20, 2015
Police try to stop migrants pushing to enter a bus at the Croatia-Slovenia border crossing at Bregana, Croatia, September 20, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Slovenian police were deployed at the Croatian-Slovenian border, where a bottleneck had formed as migrants waited for the crossing point to reopen, according to media reports.

Directed by Hungarian police officers, migrants make their way through the countryside after they crossed the Hungarian-Croatian border near the village of Zakany in Hungary to continue their trip to north on September 21, 2015 - Sputnik International
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BUDAPEST (Sputnik) – Slovenia has completely sealed off its southern border with Croatia to prevent the flow of migrants, local media reported Monday.

A Hungarian M1 television correspondent reported from one of the border checkpoints that Slovenia had closed its border to vehicles and pedestrians, while vehicles from Slovenia itself are still able to drive into Croatia.

The correspondent said Slovenian police were deployed at the Croatian-Slovenian border, where a bottleneck had formed as migrants waited for the crossing point to reopen.

Migrants crossing the border between Austria and Slovenia in Bad Radkersburg, about 210 kms (130 miles) south of Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. - Sputnik International
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Croatia has become the latest flash point in the European migrant crisis as tens of thousands people rerouted through there from Serbia after Hungary shut its southern border. Croatian authorities have said that the country has reached peak capacity and were accused by neighboring states of shipping migrants to the country's national borders.

Slovenia, along with Germany, Austria and Hungary, has introduced temporary controls within the European Union’s borderless Schengen Area, in a bid to control the flow of migrants.

Foreign ministers from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are set to discuss the unraveling migrant crisis in the Czech capital of Prague on Monday.

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