The migrant crisis on the so-called 'Balkans route' is far from over and small towns are bearing the brunt of people trying to reach Europe. CGTN's correspondent Aljosa Milenkovic reports how a popular crossing point is quickly becoming a flashpoint.

It was late in the evening when we've arrived in the former refrigerator factory, at the outskirts of Bihac. It is here that migrants are being relocated from the town's center for multiple reasons. With winter on its way, these huge factory halls offer protection from the elements. But moving migrants outside the city center should also help relax the tension between migrants and locals. These are YouTube videos from a few days ago which show massive protests in Bihac against the influx. Residents also blocked the buses at the Bihac station arriving from Sarajevo, preventing migrants from getting off. But none of that prevents them from eventually coming here.

PETER VAN DER AUWERAERT IOM REPRESENTATIVE FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA "Actually the number of migrants arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina has increased. I don't have the figures of the last week yet, but official figures of the week before that was record for the year, which is 1,290 people arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Which means that for the whole year, we are now above 20,000 with an estimated 4,500 migrants still in the country."

The morning after, we've met Davor Zupa, Head of local town Council, who pointed the finger at central authorities in Sarajevo, saying their lack of support is why this crisis hasn't been resolved.

DAVOR ZUPA HEAD OF BIHAC COUNCIL "The number of migrants is rising rapidly and we don't have adequate answers from the state authorities on this situation. And without them this crisis can't be resolved. Estimates are that at this moment in the town of Bihac between 8 and 10 percent of the entire population are migrants. And that situation has come about quite suddenly."

Despite relocation efforts, almost one thousand migrants are still in the town's center, at the former university campus.

ALJOSA MILENKOVIC BIHAC "We were here some couple of weeks ago and the situation did change, but only slightly. A building where migrants found shelter was winterized, meaning windows were installed, but hundreds of them are still outside, under the tents. Maybe the reason for that is because in just two weeks, the number of migrants in this small town has doubled, exceeding the 25-hundred mark."

It was breakfast time in this facility run by the UN's agency - the International Organization for Migration. Two slices of brown bread, two hard boiled eggs, an orange, orange juice and two packs of cheese. Some scuffles broke out outside, because some tried to cut the line. Meanwhile, local workers continued to install the windows, amid the last breaths of the mild autumn here. Aljosa Milenkovic, CGTN, Bihac.