Refugees will be 'moved on' from Croatia, PM says
Croatian PM Zoran Milanovic said that the country would not become a 'migrant hotspot'
Refugees at a train station in Tovarnik, Croatia
Refugees flooding into Croatia will be "moved on", PM Zoran Milanovic has warned, adding that his country cannot become a "migrant hotspot".
He said the country's borders would not be shut completely, but it had reached its limit.
His remarks came as Croatia closed seven of eight road crossings after a huge influx of refugees seeking onward passage towards northern Europe.
Some 14,000 people have entered Croatia over the past two days.
The huge numbers heading north through the Balkans have triggered an EU crisis. Many are fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that Hungary had also started building a fence along part of its border with Croatia, after media reports that migrants were crossing it.
The crisis has challenged the Schengen agreement, with Germany, Austria and Slovakia all re-imposing checks on parts of their borders.
EU regulations dictate the refugees must register and claim asylum in the first member state they reach.
But many refugees wish to continue on to Germany and Austria, and do not wish to seek asylum in smaller, less well-off EU nations such as Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia.
