Austria Announces it will build a fence along its border with fellow EU member Slovenia to slow down the migrant flow Wednesday Oct 28,2015

Austria will build a fence along its border with fellow EU member Slovenia to slow down the migrant flow, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said on Wednesday Oct 28,2015

 

Austria is the latest country after Slovenia and Hungary to announce plans to build a border fence to control the flow of refugees

Both countries are part of the passport-free Schengen zone and have been key transit countries for tens of thousands ofrefugees desperately seeking to reach northern Europe via the Balkans.

'This is about ensuring an orderly, controlled entry into our country, not about shutting down the border,' Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told

The politician of the conservative OeVP party said the situation risked escalating as people were forced to wait in freezing temperatures for hours before being allowed to cross the border

Hundreds of migrants are escorted from the local train station to the Slovenian-Austrian border in Sentilj, Slovenia