Migrants found in van in eastern Croatia
Xinhua, December 19, 2016 Adjust font size:
Forty-two illegal migrants were sent to hospital after Croatian police stopped a van with 67 people aboard on the highway, Croatian Health Minister Milan Kujundzic said Sunday.
The 42 migrants were sent to hospital at Saturday night due to carbon monoxide poisoning and dehydration, Kujundzic said.
They included two boys, at the age of 10 and 12, and others aged between 15 and 20.
"Some of them were unconscious, some vomited when they were found," Kujundzic said.
After treatment, none of them was in a life-threatening condition. Most of them would leave hospital and be taken over by the police, while only four would remain in hospital for several days, he added.
The van with British licence plates was stopped on the highway near the Novska, some 90 kilometers east of Zagreb, on Saturday evening.
Two Bulgarian citizens, including a driver, were arrested on suspicion of people-smuggling, according to the police.
Those migrants, mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, were packed into a ten-square-meter area when they were found, Croatian News Agency HINA reported. Endit