Tovarnik

Croatia's Interior Ministry has said some 10 000 migrants crossed into the country on Friday, September 25 alone.

On its website, it has also put the total number of migrants who arrived at 65 000.

Croatia has opened Bajakovo (Batrovci) and Tovarnik (Sid) crossings on its border with Serbia for all traffic, with no restrictions.

This was reported on Friday afternoon by the Zagreb-based daily Vecernji List.

Croatia's Interior Ministry has announced the Bajakovo and Tovarnik border crossing points into and out of Serbia are open "to all traffic, without any restrictions".

According to public broadcaster HRT, which cites government officials, vehicles have been moving both ways past the Bajakovo crossing regardless of their license plate number as of 17:00 local time (18:00 EEST).

Croatia ends blockade of border with Serbia

Croatia has opened Bajakovo (Batrovci) and Tovarnik (Sid) crossings on its border with Serbia for all traffic, with no restrictions.

The Croatian Interior Ministry confirmed the news, saying that all vehicles "regardless of license plates" and all trucks can enter Croatia starting from 17:00 CET on Friday.

After Hungary, Croatia appears ready to close its border to war refugees, mostly desperate Syrian and Iraqis, but also to huge groups of third country nationals from as far as away as Bangladesh exploiting the refugee crisis to illegally enter Europe until they reach their desired destination.

About  29,000 migrants have entered Croatia since September 16 when Hungary sealed off its border with Serbia, thus redirecting migrant flow to Croatia, Hina reported, citing figures available as of Monday morning.

Croatia is not closing its borders, but has reached its capacity and will redirect people to Slovenia and Hungary, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovi? has said.

Slovenia has meanwhile effectively closed its border with Croatia and is refusing to accept migrants.

Croatia closed most of its border with Serbia on Sept.17 as it became the latest hotspot in Europe's migrant crisis, with thousands of new arrivals overwhelming local authorities ahead of an emergency summit next week.

Croatian police said on Wednesday that migrants have continued arriving from Serbia into the eastern border town of Tovarnik after Hungary closed its border with Serbia to halt a rising tide of migrants.

The move by the Hungarian government prompted non-EU Serbia to redirect buses carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees to the border with another EU member state - Croatia.

The police in Croatia have started transporting refugees caught illegally crossing the border and those who already crossed it to Tovarnik.

The migrants are registered in this town close to the border with Serbia. On Wednesday morning, the Croatian police confirmed that about 20 had entered the country avoiding official border crossings.