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The Municipal Security Council in the northwestern municipality of Sid, near the border with Croatia, had decided to shut down a local migrant reception center.

The facility in question is located near the Serbian town's railway station, Beta is reporting on Tuesday, citing Belgrade-based daily Blic.

The Serbian police have carried out an operation in the town of Sid, on Serbia's northwestern border with Croatia, detaining more than 200 illegal migrants.

According to the local Sremska TV, cited by Serbia's state broadcaster RTS, this was "an operation to remove illegal migrants" during which "more than 200 of those who were not in the legal channels have been caught."

Four migrants were injured early on Thursday when a stationary tank car exploded at the railway station in the town of Sid, western Serbia.

This has been confirmed by the police in nearby Sremska Mitrovica.

SID - About 130 Pakistani and Afghani migrants who had spent the night in the open by a road near the border crossing between Sid, western Serbia, and Tovarnik, eastern Croatia, on Monday failed to break through a police barricade and get into Croatia.

SID - About 130 Pakistani and Afghani migrants who had spent the night in the open by a road near the border crossing between Sid, western Serbia, and Tovarnik, eastern Croatia, on Monday failed to break through a police barricade and get into Croatia.

BELGRADE - In large number of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in reception centers in Serbia, a greater presence of body lice was noticed, which normally transmit Typhus and trench fever.

The Serbian police have seized nearly 732 kilograms of tobacco in a private house in the town of Sid, in the northwest of the country.

This was announced on Friday by the Interior Ministry (MUP).

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No country can be left to solve the refugee problem alone, EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn said during a visit to Serbia on Friday.

This problem can only be solved if we all work together in the spirit of solidarity and sharing the burden, said Hahn, who is in charge of EU's neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Friday visited a refugee reception center in the town of Sid.

This town in located near Serbia's border with Croatia.