SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Croatian police terminated on a gathering of illicit vagrants attempting to arrive at neighboring Slovenia late on Saturday, leaving one man basically harmed, authorities in the northern Adriatic town of Rijeka said. 

Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic told columnists that the gathering was likely attempting to cross into Slovenia, however didn't state what number of individuals were in the gathering or give their nationalities. 

Croatia is on a course taken by numerous transients from the Middle East and focal Asia attempting to arrive at wealthier EU states. Some cross into Croatia from Bosnia undeclared. 

"Cops were forestalling the entry of a gathering which most likely needed to arrive at Slovenia," Bozinovic told media late on Saturday, including that one man was injured presumably because of the utilization of guns. 

A specialist at the Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center said the man in a basic condition had endured discharge wounds. 

"The patient was conceded for dire medical procedure in the wake of continuing discharge wounds in the territory of thorax and stomach," the specialist told Reuters by phone on Sunday. "He is in a dangerous condition and concentrated therapeutic treatment is proceeding." 

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Bozinovic said territorial specialists would explore the episode, which occurred in the rugged Gorski Kotar region near Rijeka, which is around 20 km (12 miles) from the Slovenian fringe. 

Croatia, which needs to join the EU's without fringe Schengen territory, needs to persuade Brussels that it can viably deal with the coalition's outside outskirt, an especially touchy issue since Europe's 2015 vagrant emergency. 

Neighboring Bosnia, which has become a vagrant problem area since 2018, has over and over blamed Croatia for returning transients to Bosnia in any event, when they are discovered somewhere down in its domain. Numerous transients have been griping of fierceness of Croatian cops, claims that Croatia has rejected. 

(Detailing by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Susan Fenton)