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Afghan Migrant Shot Dead in Serbia

by Associated Press

   BELGRADE --

   Serbia's defense ministry says a 20-year old Afghan migrant crossing
   illegally from Bulgaria has been shot dead, apparently by hunters.

   The ministry said Wednesday that its border patrol heard a shot Tuesday
   night and then discovered six migrants, of whom one had a chest wound.
   He later died.

   The ministry says a hunter who was at the scene was detained on
   suspicion that he shot the migrant.

   Since the so-called Balkan migrant route was closed in March after more
   than 1 million used it to head for the EU last year, hundreds fleeing
   wars and poverty are still crossing daily from Bulgaria through Serbia
   to try to make it into EU-member Hungary.

   UNHCR has estimated that there are currently some 4,400 migrants stuck
   in Serbia.