Bosnian officials have begun closing a makeshift camp in the country's northwest, moving hundreds of migrants who were stranded in snow and freezing weather to a new reception centre under construction in a former military barrack near Sarajevo.
International aid organisations repeatedly warned that the ramshackle Vucjak camp, close to Bosnia and Herzegovina's border with Croatia, is unfit for people to live in because it is located on a former landfill and close to a minefield from the 1992-95 war.
About 600 people were living there without running water or proper heating.
The closure comes after a European Convention on Human Rights official visited Vucjak and warned that deaths would be imminent if the camp was not shuttered immediately.
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports.
International aid organisations repeatedly warned that the ramshackle Vucjak camp, close to Bosnia and Herzegovina's border with Croatia, is unfit for people to live in because it is located on a former landfill and close to a minefield from the 1992-95 war.
About 600 people were living there without running water or proper heating.
The closure comes after a European Convention on Human Rights official visited Vucjak and warned that deaths would be imminent if the camp was not shuttered immediately.
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports.
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