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On the risky journey from the Global South to Europe, migrants often perish. In a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near a river where dozens have drowned, citizens seek to provide closure to the families.

On the risky journey from the Global South to Europe, migrants often perish. In a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near a river where dozens have drowned, citizens seek to provide closure to the families.

They freeze to death in the forests and drown in the rivers: Many of the migrants who die on the Balkan route are never identified. Relatives are desperately searching for certainty – and some even have to pay bribes to get access to the morgues.

Almost 100 people presumed to be migrants have died along one section of the route this year - a 46 per cent increase on the whole of 2022