Bodies of four asylum seekers found on the Belarus-Poland border
The bodies of four asylum seekers, including an Iraqi woman, have been found on the Polish-Belarusian border. It is alleged that Belarusian agents are deliberately sending asylum seekers from the Middle East to the European Union.
On Sunday evening, September 19, Polish border police announced that three bodies had been found in separate locations on the country's border with Belarus. Belarus also said it had found one body on its border with Poland. The body belonged to an Iraqi female asylum seeker, who was found one meter from the Polish border.
A Belarusian border police official told state television that there was clear evidence that the body of the Iraqi refugee woman was "brought" from Poland to Belarus.
The body was found next to a man, an elderly woman and three children, all Iraqis. The man, who is the deceased woman's husband, told the Belarusian state news agency that Polish border guards brought them to the Belarusian border and "threatened" them to go to Belarus. The temperature in the area is currently five degrees Celsius at night.
Polish border police have rescued eight migrants who were stuck in a swamp near the Belarusian border, in addition to finding three bodies. Five men and three women had been stuck in the swamp for hours. Two of them have been taken to hospital. The border between Poland and Belarus is currently in the news. Polish President Andrzej Duda declared a state of emergency on the country's borders on the first of this month. This was because thousands of refugees and migrants from the Middle East entered the European Union through Belarus last month. Poland has also started building a fence on its border with Belarus.
