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The international Red Cross says vulnerable migrants in the Balkans are facing increasingly difficult conditions with the arrival of heavy rains and cold weather.
It said Friday the deteriorating weather brings with it "severe health and safety risks to people who have already traveled thousands of miles, often with limited access to food, basic necessities, shelter or health care."
Serbia is in the center of the Balkan corridor for migrants who cross from Greece to Macedonia and then via Serbia to Croatia or Hungary. Some 250,000 migrants are estimated to have passed through Serbia since the beginning of this year.
Vesna Milenovic, an official for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, says "Our main concern is what will happen in the next few weeks and months. Autumn and winter weather can be severe in the region."
12:40 p.m.
Croatian police say the number of migrants who have entered the country since mid-September could reach 100,000 on Friday.
Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said more than 97,000 people have crossed so far and more are expected by the end of the day and overnight.
Croatia has been transporting the migrants coming to the country from Serbia toward the border with Hungary.
Migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia want to reach the rich countries of Western Europe such as Germany and Sweden.
12:20 p.m.
The number of people seeking asylum in Hungary almost doubled in August as the government was building a razor-wire fence to stop migrants from entering the country from Serbia.
Figures from the European Union's statistical agency Friday show that 92,265 people applied for asylum in August compared to 49,250 in July.
That brings the total number of people seeking international protection there so far this year to around 207,000, according to Eurostat figures.
Most people arriving in Hungary travel overland from Greece and many try to move deeper into the EU bound for countries like Germany or Sweden.
11:35 a.m.
The U.N. refugee agency is reporting a "noticeable drop" this week in arrivals of refugees by sea into Greece — as the total figure for the year nears the 400,000 mark.
Citing cooler, windier weather that makes the crossing from Turkey more dangerous, UNHCR said Friday that 1,500 people crossed the Aegean Sea a day earlier — down from an average of 5,000 per day in recent weeks.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said "any improvement in the weather is likely to bring another surge in arrivals." The agency anticipates 700,000 arrivals total by year end.
Overall, the UNHCR estimates 396,500 people have entered Greece via the Mediterranean this year. Seventy percent of them are from Syria.
The International Organization for Migration has a higher figure of inflows to Greece.
11:25 a.m.
Hungary's prime minister says his Croatian counterpart is an envoy of a global left-wing organization whose job is to attack Hungary.
Orban said Friday on state radio that the parties in the Socialist International, which includes Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic's Social Democratic Party, think the wave of migrants reaching Europe is a "good thing" and their leaders "are following the orders not so much of their people as of the Socialist International."
Orban said Hungary does not consider "what the Croatian prime minister says to be the opinion of the Croatian people."
Politicians from the two countries have been trading barbs since Hungary's decision on Sept. 15 to close its border with Serbia with a high fence protected by razor wire, police and soldiers.
Now, thousands of migrants a day are streaming into Hungary from neighboring Croatia in search of clear routes toward Germany and other destinations in the European Union.
Hungarian officials say they are close to completing a fence on the Croatian border, as well.
8:50 a.m.
Hungary's prime minister says the refugees and migrants arriving in Europe are mostly young men who "look more like an army than asylum seekers."
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday on state radio that while he did not reject the right of any country to try to solve its demographic problems "with young men from the Arab world who look like warriors," it was unacceptable "to have this forced upon Hungary."
Orban, who is advocating for global quotas for receiving migrants, says it is unfair for countries like the United States, the rich Arab states, Israel and Australia to expect Europe to take in the migrants while accepting few or none themselves.
He said that if Europe tried to solve the migration crisis and other global problems on its own, "we will crush the lifestyle ... values and strengths we have developed in the past several hundreds of years.