austrian authorities: Slovenian border guards tried to send them back to Austria on Monday, but Austrian authorities declined to take them, according to Metro News. The migrants have now been placed in a Slovenian refugee centre near the border. Slovenia state news agency says nine migrants who crossed into Austria illegally and then were returned to Slovenia have become the focus of a dispute between the two European Union neighbours .STA said Tuesday that the group entered Austria on Sunday and were swiftly returned to Slovenia. STA says formal proceedings will be launched to return them to Austria. Romanian television Digi24, reporting from Bulgaria on Tuesday, says the bodies were found in the Bulgarian waters of the Danube after their boat capsized on Thursday. Tens of thousands migrants and refugees fleeing wars and poverty have crossed the border between Slovenia and Austria before the so-called Balkan route that led from Greece through Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia was shut in March.___2:45 p.m.A Romanian television station is reporting that two migrants, including a 5-year-old boy, have drowned and six are missing after their boat sank last week crossing the River Danube from Bulgaria to Romania.
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