Inspectors of the BiH Foreigners’ Affairs Service have removed nine migrant families from abandoned buildings in the area of Bosnia's north-western Una-Sana Canton to local migrant camps of Sedra and Borici, the Service said Monday adding that these measures were conducted within their activities of monitoring the movement of migrants residing in the country.

“It was determined that nine families, of a total of 43 people, with 19 children, are staying in abandoned buildings that do not meet even the minimum living conditions at the Bosanska Bojna site, in the immediate vicinity of the border with the Republic of Croatia. The service immediately initiated and coordinated a series of activities on their relocation from the said location, placing them in the temporary reception centres ‘Sedra’ in Cazin and ‘Borici’ in Bihac, which are also intended for accommodation of families and vulnerable categories of migrants,” said the deputy director of the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs of BiH Mirsad Buzar.

All relocation activities were carried out in cooperation with the BiH Border Police and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), while the families immediately underwent medical triage and were placed in isolation units of these centres in accordance with epidemiological measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.