As migrants continue to flock to Europe, Sweden has introduced identity checks for travellers  from Denmark, in an attempt to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country.

All travellers wanting to cross the Oresund Bridge by train or bus, or use ferry services, would be refused entry without the necessary documents.

Also, rail commuters heading to Sweden will now have to change trains at Copenhagen airport and go through identity checkpoints.

Sweden received more than 150,000 asylum applications in 2015.

An estimated 20,000 commuters daily cross the Oresund Bridge, which connects the Swedish cities of Malmo and Lund with the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

The Swedish government secured a temporary exemption from the European union’s open-border Schengen agreement, in order to impose the border controls.

The vast majority of commuters using the Oresund Bridge cross from Sweden, so the changes were expected to hit people hardest as they return from work during the evening rush hour.

To comply with the regulations, fencing has been erected around one of the platforms at the railway station at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport.

Police have also set up fencing at Hyllie, the first station on the Swedish side of the bridge, amid reports of plans for further ID checks there.

Sweden’s SJ train company said it would not have time to check people travelling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund Bridge.