Croatian police fired on a group of illegal migrants trying to reach neighbouring Slovenia late on Saturday, leaving one man critically injured, officials in the northern Adriatic town of Rijeka said.
Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic told reporters that the group was probably trying to cross into Slovenia, but did not say how many people were in the group or give their nationalities.
"Police officers were preventing the passage of a group which most probably wanted to reach Slovenia," Bozinovic told media late on Saturday, adding that one man was wounded probably due to the use of firearms.
A doctor at the Rijeka Clinical Hospital Centre said the man in a critical condition had suffered gunshot wounds.