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Bleak Bosnian winter for migrants camped out on new route to Europe

Thousands are stranded on the border with Croatia with no proper shelter as the cold nights draw in and local patience wears thin.

Shouting "Open borders!", several dozen migrants and asylum seekers broke through a police cordon last week at the Maljevac border checkpoint in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and tried to cross into Croatia.

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