Immigrants

One in three new asylum-seekers in Serbia comes from Syria

09.09.2013 u 12:00

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Of some 40 immigrants who seek asylum in Serbia every day, over one third are refugees from Syria, and facilities for accommodation of asylum-seekers are overcrowded, the Belgrade electronic media reported on Sunday.

For instance, the Bogovadja centre for immigrants in central Serbia currently cares for 150 asylum-seekers, and of them 44 are Syrians.

A representative of this centre told the media that the centre received some 40 new immigrants on the daily basis and about 15 of them came from Syria.

Most of those asylum-seekers are young educated people aged 20-25 who fled their country due to the war.

Immigrants usually remain two weeks in this Bogovadja camp, and they are later transferred to some other places in Serbia or left Serbia for western European countries.