On the border of Poland and Belarus, a group of illegal migrants from the Middle East was lost in the woods and got stuck in a swamp. This was reported in the Twitter -akkaunte Border Guard in Poland.
According to the agency, as a result of the rescue operation of the quagmire of eight people were recovered, seven of them – two women and five men – are now in hospital with hypothermia. Eight illegal border guards remained in custody.
September 20 Polish border guards found the body in the forest belt of three migrants who tried to illegally enter the country from the territory of Belarus. Arrived at the scene, police officers and prosecutors, the authorities intend to open a criminal case because of what happened and to thoroughly investigate all the circumstances of the death of refugees.
Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Moravetsky suspected in the incident the Belarusian authorities, however, assured that Warsaw is not yet sufficient evidence on this account.
The migration crisis at the borders of Belarus and the European Union began at the end of May. Large groups of illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East began to storm the borders of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia in the hope of getting refuge in the European Union. It is assumed that the Belarusian authorities use their national tour operator “Centerkurort” to cross the migrants to the EU borders and earn it.