Carrying out intensified operational activities aimed at controlling the movement and stay of foreigners in the Una-Sana Canton, Inspectors of the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, in cooperation with members of the Ministry of Interior of Una-Sana Canton found a total of 32 migrants in an abandoned devastated house in the settlement of Stari Grad, in Velika Kladuša.

Since the above-mentioned persons were staying illegally in the abandoned facility, the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), coordinated a number of activities to relocate them from the said location in the temporary reception center Sedra, which is intended to accommodate vulnerable categories of migrants.

These are eight migrant families with a total of 15 minor children. All migrants were taken care of, with the necessary medical triage in accordance with epidemiological measures to prevent the spread of the COVID 19 pandemic, they were provided with appropriate accommodation.

The Service will continue to carry out intensified activities to control the movement and stay of foreigners in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the coming period, the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs announced.