Poland President Angey Duda signed a decree to extend the current emergency regime on the border with Belarus for 60 days. This is reported by “Sputnik Belarus.”
The document is directed to the parliament, which should approve it. The emergency regime was introduced earlier in September and acted in two Polish voivodes, Podlaski and Lublinsky, raised almost 200 settlements. PE mode introduces a number of restrictions, including a prohibition of mass events.
On September 24, the Border Service of Poland reported the death of a migrant from Iraq on the border with Belorussia. The preliminary cause of death was called a heart attack. Another migrant was hospitalized with coronavirus.
September 20, Polish authorities stated that they found three migrants on the border with the Belarusian body, including women. They died due to exhaustion and supercooling.
The migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the European Union countries began in May. President Alexander Lukashenko Against the background of the next exacerbation of relations with the West threatened to weaken control over the flows of illegal immigrants and drug trafficking. Poland and the Baltic countries accused Belarusian border guards in a special browse of migrants to the border.