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Thirty-two people were injured when a fire broke out at a migrant centre in northwestern Bosnia .
Police said the blaze is likely to have started accidentally from a cooking device in a dormitory at the Miral camp in Velika Kladusa.
Videos posted on social media showed some of the migrants jumping to safety out of the windows.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze on Saturday morning. Thirteen migrants remained in hospital for treatment to burns or fractures.
The camp, which is run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), held 247 migrants and refugees at the time of the fire.
Show all 17 1 /17Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Nagan, 12, is one of 180,000 Syrian refugee children Unicef has identified as OOSC (Out Of School Children) who have been forced into work in Lebanon
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year The majestic snow capped mountains overlooking al-Wafa refugee camp in Arsal, Lebanon. It is home to 700 refugees who fled their homes at the outbreak of civil war in 2012
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Fuda al-Bareesh, 92, spends her days in solitude at Alsalam 2 camp in Arsal, Lebanon. She made the journey from Syria across the mountains alone on a donkey
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Kareemah, 21, mother of two from Chebaa, southern Lebanon. She is unsure how her family will be able to afford basics like food and fuel if aid is cut off
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Exercising patience in the cold, men and women wait to collect winter fuel at Alsalam camp, Arsal. Gifted by Muslim Aid UK donors, each family receives 20 litres – enough for two days of continuous heat
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year The view to the snow covered mountains through the cracked pane of glass at al-Wafa camp
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year At al-Wafa refugee camp in Arsal, Abdul Al Moamen, 10, sits in tears
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Ahmed, 3, helps his eldest brother to move the empty plastic jerry cans along the line as they get refilled at a fuel distribution centre
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Qaram, 8, was orphaned when her father was killed by Isis. She is in desperate need of an operation to save her sight. Instead of going to school, she works eight-hour shifts each day on a nearby farm
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Ahmed Fawzi, Lebanon country director for Muslim Aid, comforts Abdul al-Moamen
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Bisan, 5, plays with friends in among puddles of rainwater from recent storms Norma and Miriam
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Amina Safadi is a beneficiary of the Primary Healthcare Centre in Chebaa, Lebanon. The ICRC-accredited facility welcomes the most marginalised Lebanese residents as well as Syrian refugees. Safadi says she has no idea what she would do if the service was unavailable
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year The queue for fuel at a fuel distribution centre in Arsal
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Hadi, 6, waits with aid workers whilst his mother collects heating fuel for the family’s stove
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Fuel bowser delivers aid to the 700 residents at al-Wafa camp
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year The child workers of Lebanon. Unicef says 180,000 children are working on farms and in factories
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Return to Lebanon: Syrian refugee crisis in its eighth year Ahmed Slabi and his five children. “What are my choices now for me and my family? It's bad here or worse in Syria.” He feels dependent on international aid, a social pariah and beggar in a country that is not his own
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“IOM staff, who are present in the centres 24/7 and are trained to respond to such events, quickly responded and successfully evacuated the migrants from the burning part of the building,” the organisation said in a statement.
Thousands of migrants pass through Bosnia along the “Western Balkans route” an attempt to seek refuge in western Europe.
Last year, around 25,000 people from Asia and North Africa entered Bosnia from Serbia and Montenegro.
About 6,000 have arrived in the Balkan country so far this year, according to Bosnia’s security agencies.
Only around 3,500 of those have been accommodated in transit centres, leaving thousands sleeping rough.
Most of the new arrivals are from Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco and Afghanistan, according to the latest UN statistics.
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