Nearly 140 migrants were transported from Tuzla, central Bosnia, to Sarajevo. This was the largest single migrant group, mostly consisting of young Pakistani men, to be transferred from one city to another.

After some three years of roaming across different countries, they came to Bosnia. The reason they left their country is mostly the security situation which they could not take any longer.

“Explosions, army, conflicts, issues with other people, the bombing of homes are just some of the reasons,” Etsham Ali from Pakistan told N1.

The migrants came from Serbia to the Sapna Municipality, eastern Bosnia, from where they were transported to Tuzla for registration. They said they received the best treatment in Bosnia, but they wish to continue on their way to the EU.

“God willing, my plan is to go to Italy. In two weeks I plan to go to Croatia, Slovenia, Italy… France is also a good country to find work,” Mohammed Abbas from Pakistan told N1.

Tuzla citizens and organisations also helped.

“I came across a group of migrants and I decided to host the three of them in my own home, to let them take a shower because they asked me when’s the time for Friday prayer. So I decided to host them and to give them a meal,” Tuzla resident, Muhamed Mehanovic said.

“We provide 125 meals a day, and we’ll continue to provide food in the next 5 days. Tomorrow is the time for a dry meal but on the weekends we'll provide them with hot meals. Next week we’ll continue handing out hot meals and depending on the number of migrants, we’ll continue to hand out different meals to migrants,” Mensura Husanovic from the Muslim Charitable Society ‘Merhamet’ told N1.

Tomorrow the meals will probably be given to some other group of migrants because, when N1’s team came back to the place where a group of migrants first received their Friday meal, there was no one there.

Some 6,500 migrants entered the country since the beginning of the year but 4,000 of them have already left the country.