Bosnia and Herzegovina's border police director Zoran Galic said on Monday evening that upon the lifting of some of the COVID-19 restrictions, the pressure of migrants along the Bosnia-Serbia borderline had risen.

In the last 24 hours, the police in the area of the northeastern town of Zvornik deterred 91 illegal migrants from entering Bosnia from Serbia.

They also prevented the smuggling of irregular migrants from Serbia into Bosnia on their route towards western Europe.

Galic said that an additional team of police officers had been deployed in the area of Zvornik in a bid to step up the border protection.