An early morning report from Bratislava (Slovakia), said Slovakian police injured a Syrian woman when they opened fire on a group of migrants as they attempted to flee in a car.
It said customs police ordered four cars carrying migrants to stop early Monday for a control at Velky Meder, south-east of Bratislava, and near the border with Hungary, but one of the drivers attempted to flee.
It said police have refused to comment.
Meanwhile, a spokesman from a nearby hospital confirmed that a 26-year-old woman from Syria involved in the shootout is in stable condition after surgery.
She said a bullet was extracted from her back.
Slovakian authorities said earlier that smugglers of Germany-bound migrants were looking for a path through Slovakia and the Czech.
Republic to circumvent the tightly controlled border between Hungary and Austria.
Slovakia and other Eastern European states have been hostile to migrants as their numbers exploded last year and have challenged an EU scheme to redistribute asylum seekers across the bloc. (dpa/NAN)
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