Croatia ‘can’t cope with refugee influx’

Amid chaotic scenes at its border with Serbia, Croatia said it could not cope with a flood of refugees seeking a new route into the EU after Hungary kept them out by erecting a fence and using tear gas and water cannon against them.

The EU’s newest member state said that it may try to stop taking in refugees and migrants, just as the 28-nation bloc announced its leaders would hold an emergency summit next Wednesday to try to resolve the migration crisis.

More than 7,300 people entered Croatia from Serbia in the 24 hours after Wednesday’s clashes between Hungarian riot police and stone-throwing refugees at its Balkan neighbour’s frontier.