Croatia ‘unable to accommodate refugees’

After suddenly landing in the path of the biggest migration in Europe for decades, Croatia said it could no longer offer them refuge and would wave them onwards, challenging the EU to find a policy to receive them.

The refugees, mostly from poor or war-torn countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, have streamed into Croatia since Wednesday, after Hungary blocked what had been the main route with a metal fence and riot police at its border with Serbia.

“We cannot register and accommodate these people any longer,” Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanovic told a news conference in the capital Zagreb.