⁍ Serbian police arrested two men on Thursday on suspicion they had helped illegally transport seven migrants.

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⁍ The badly decomposed bodies of seven men were found earlier this month in a Paraguay port inside a shipment of fertilizer.

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⁍ The number of migrants following the so-called Balkan route to enter western Europe has dwindled since 2016.

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– Serbian police arrested two men on Thursday on suspicion they had helped illegally transport seven migrants whose decomposed bodies were later found inside a fertilizer shipment in Paraguay, Reuters reports. The badly decomposed bodies of seven men were found earlier this month in a Paraguay port inside a shipment of fertilizer that left Serbia three months earlier. The number of migrants following the so-called Balkan route to enter western Europe has dwindled since 2016, when around a million people are believed to have made the journey. European countries have tightened border controls since then. In a statement, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said that one Moroccan and one Algerian national, identified only by initials H.M. and S.K. had been charged with aiding seven migrants “whose remains were found in a shipping container in Paraguay” to illegally cross the border between Serbia and Croatia. “They are suspected of plotting with other unidentified persons to place migrants in a railroad transport container to help them avoid border controls,” the statement said. No charges were laid relating to the men’s deaths.