A woman holds a child in her arms as as they board buses, during the evacuation of a makeshift camp in a park across the City Hall, in Sarajevo, on early Friday morning, May 18, 2018. Hundreds of migrants who have been camping in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in a makeshift tent settlement in a city park are being relocated this morning in southern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A convoy of buses with about 270 migrants, including children, has been stuck in central Bosnia, reflecting the chaotic situation in the war-scarred Balkan country as it struggles to cope with the influx.
Authorities were transporting migrants Friday from Sarajevo, the capital, toward a center for asylum-seekers near the southwestern town of Mostar, but the regional authorities there didn't allow them in.
The buses then have returned into the Sarajevo district and remain blocked. Local media say there are 18 children among the migrants, who are frightened and confused.
Bosnia's authorities earlier on Friday dismantled a migrant tent settlement in central Sarajevo to move them to the Mostar area. Interior Minister Dragan Mektic told N1 television that the convoy blockade there amounted to a "coup d'etat."
A police officer stands guard by a bus with migrants on board during the evacuation of a makeshift camp in a park across from the City Hall, in Sarajevo, Friday May 18, 2018. Hundreds migrants who have been camping in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in a make- shift tent settlement in a city park is relocated this morning in southern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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A migrant women from Afghanistan peers from the tent in the park across from The City Hall, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, May 17, 2018. Thousands of migrants have been stuck in the Balkans while trying to reach Western Europe. Hundreds have been camping in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo where a make-shift tent settlement has sprouted in a city park. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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A woman holds a child as migrants pack their belongings and their tents during the evacuation of a makeshift camp in a park across the City Hall, in Sarajevo, on early Friday morning, May 18, 2018. Hundreds of migrants who have been camping in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in a makeshift tent settlement in a city park are being relocated this morning in southern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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