A shooting between migrants near Serbia’s border with Hungary early Friday left three people dead and one other person seriously wounded, Serbia’s state RTS television reported on Friday.The shooting happened at abandoned farming warehouses near the village of Horgos, the report said. A large number of police officers were sent to the scene, RTS said. Police have yet to issue an official statement.ORBÁN COMPARES HUNGARY’S EU MEMBERSHIP TO SOVIET OCCUPATION IN FIERY SPEECHReports of violence and gunbattles have become common near the border between Serbia and European Union member nation Hungary. Thousands of migrants have been camping in the area, looking for ways to cross with the help of people smugglers. Three people have reportedly been killed in a migrant shootout along the Serbo-Hungarian border. (Fox News)The Serbia-Hungary border area lies on the so-called Balkan land route of migration toward Western Europe, which leads from Turkey to Greece and Bulgaria, and then on to North Macedonia, Serbia, or Bosnia.BELGIAN JUSTICE MINISTER OUT AFTER LEARNING TUNISIAN SHOOTER COULD’VE BEEN EXTRADITED LAST YEARHungary’s staunchly anti-immigrant government has put up razor wire fence on the border with Serbia to stop the influx. People smuggling gangs, however, have multiplied in the border area, often clashing for control.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPSerbian police have raided the border area on several occasions over the past several months. They later reported rounding up hundreds of migrants, arresting people smugglers and finding various weapons in the forested area.
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