Tensions mounted Monday inside Bulgaria’s largest refugee camp as several hundred Afghan migrants launched a protest demanding they be allowed to continue their journey toward western Europe, a rights group said. “They are protesting the fact that they’re being held in Bulgaria against their will and want to continue to Serbia and from there to western Europe,” spokeswoman Iliana Savova told AFP. The Bulgarian interior ministry confirmed there were “tensions” inside the centre, which houses 3,800 migrants. Some 13,000 illegal migrants remain stranded inside Bulgaria, after other key transit countries along the western Bproalkan route shut their borders earlier this year. Bulgaria has also built a barbed wire fence that will soon cover most of its 259km border with Turkey.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 24, 2016 14:28 UTC