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Belgrade: Official Camps and Serbia Migrants

belgrade: Over 6,400 refugees and migrants are in Serbia, according to the United Nations, and hundreds have taken to sheltering in abandoned warehouses outside of Belgrade, hoping to be one of 10 chosen every day to enter Hungary, according to Huffington Post Canada. Migrants and refugees warm themselves inside an abandoned warehouse near Belgrade, Serbia, where the temperature has dropped to minus 11 C on Jan. 7, 2016. Temperatures outside of Belgrade have dipped as low as minus 20 C in the past month. For months, the strategy has been to block humanitarian aid to push these people into official camps. Moissaing added that several people have already died of exposure in the region. But the camps are full and are already stretched beyond capacity, so today people are left with no other option than to sleep in abandoned buildings in freezing temperatures, Stephane Moissaing, head of M decins Sans Fronti res' Serbian mission, said in a release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.