A refugee was killed and at least six others, including a teenage girl, were injured on Saturday in Serbia near the Hungarian border in an exchange of fire between groups of refugees, Serbian public radio and television RTS reported.
The 16-year-old suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting, which occurred in a forest near Subotica, some 160 km north of Belgrade, where the injured were hospitalized, according to TRS.
The police blocked access to the forest where the shooting took place, one kilometer from the Hungarian border.
Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin visited the scene.
The injured, aged 20 to 30, had no identity papers, Subotica Mayor Stevan Bakic told media.
It was impossible to know what triggered this shooting.
The road to the EU
According to the media, the shooting opposed Afghan and Pakistani refugees, probably about the traffic in which the smugglers engage to cross the border to illegal immigrants to Hungary, a member country of the European Union.
Serbia is on the Balkan route used by migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa seeking to reach Western Europe.
Although this route is less traveled than during the migrant crisis in 2015, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants pass through the region each year.
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