Italian Red Cross arrived in Bosnia with lorries full of blankets and other aid for migrants residing in Bosnia's notorious Lipa camp, Italian Embassy published on their official Twitter account on Sunday.
“Italian Red Cross arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina to help Bosnian colleagues with clothes, blankets and other first aid items in Una-Sana Canton's Lipa Camp,” official Embassy Twitter account said.
@crocerossa ?? je stigla u Bihać pomagati ??kolegama sa tri kamionima punim odjeće, pokrivača i ostalih predmeta za #migrante u #USK
?? #RedCross arrived in #BiH to help ??colleagues w/ clothes, blankets and other first aid items in #UnaSana #Lipa Camp
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— @ItalyinBiH (@italyinbih) January 17, 2021
Some 900 of migrants spent days without adequate shelter after the Lipa camp, in the north-west of Bosnia, was shut down on December 23.
The International Organisation for Migrations pulled out of the camp because the migrants staying there had no access to electricity, running water or sewage. The camp also did not provide shelter from the extreme weather conditions in the winter.
During a visit to camp #Lipa in northwestern #Bosnia, state and local officials said #migrants staying there will not be relocated to the #Bira centre in #Bihac. They promised the camp will be made suitable for accommodation. But the migrants don’t want to stay. pic.twitter.com/76neMAq0Wu
— N1english (@N1info) January 3, 2021
State authorities first tried to relocate the migrants to the Bira camp in Bihac but this failed due to resistance by local authorities and residents who started patrolling the area around the facility and said they would prevent the transfer of any migrants there.
Then the Security Ministry tried to accommodate the migrants in a barracks in the southern village of Bradina, but this also failed due to resistance by local authorities.
In the end, the Bosnian government ordered the Armed Forces to set up army tents on the location of the previous Lipa Camp and to provide each tent with heating. The entire camp is also provided with running water and basic living conditions, but the situation is still dire, foreign and local officials warn.
Migrants in the Bosnian #LipaCamp are slowly being allowed to enter the tents which the #BiH Army has been setting up for them over the past several days. #Bosnia https://t.co/uECU6it71L pic.twitter.com/rXVDwrFOQa
— N1english (@N1info) January 8, 2021
Bosnia is faced with a migrant crisis with some 7,000-9,000 migrants who are stranded in the country on their way to western Europe. They mostly reside in the north-west of the country which is the closest to the EU border.
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