The decision of Vienna to limit the influx of immigrants created a bottleneck in said area, where they are taken by train directly from the shelter in Opativac, on the border with Croatia, and where they are registered, highlighted the local television.
Elsewhere in this small Balkan nation of barely two million inhabitants, 11,000 out of the 100,000 undocumented immigrants, who passed through Slovenian territory since Hungary shut the border with Croatia on last 17th, are concentrating, said the Delo diary.
The decision of Budapest, after doing the same with Serbia on last September 15th, diverted the flow towards this former Yugoslav republic, the door to the Schengen area in the Balkans.
However, Austria, which also belongs to the treaty of free movement of persons, admitted on Thursday the possible construction of a fence along its border with Slovenia.
The migratory chaos between this nation and Austria coincides with the sinking of two boats off the Greek island of Kalymnos and Roda, with 22 dead, including 13 children, which adds another 17 deaths, including 11 infants, in the past two days.
Some 500,500 refugees, mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, reached the Greek coasts this year, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey, taking in about 1,2 displaced Syrians.
Damascus denounced at the time the disastrous consequences of Western interference in its internal affairs, including the social destabilization that led to an armed conflict, killing more than 200,000 people in four years.
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