Serbian police round up hundreds of migrants in north and southeast

Serbian police have rounded up a total of 738 migrants in several raids in northern and eastern areas of the Balkan country, part of a nationwide operation launched last week after a shootout in which three migrants died.
In a statement late on Thursday, the police said they had rounded up migrants in the municipalities of Subotica, Sombor and Kikinda near the Hungarian border in the north and near the town of Pirot in the southeast, near the border with Bulgaria.
Last week three migrants died in a shootout near Serbia’s border with Hungary, a route increasingly used by people smugglers for entering the European Union.
The police said they had searched more than 5,000 cars and 32 homes and had uncovered passports and other personal documents. So far theh have rounded up hundreds of migrants and arrested dozens.