Three people have died after crossing into Poland from Belarus, and a fourth person has been found dead on the Belarusian side of the border following a surge in illegal migration that has caused a diplomatic row.
Polish officials, who announced the three deaths inside Poland, gave no cause of death on Monday. The Belarusian border service identified the person found inside Belarus as "a woman of non-Slavic appearance" but did not say how she died.
" has introduced a visa-free regime with several countries with great potential for illegal immigration, tens of thousands of people are being brought to Belarus," he said. Poland has started building a barbed wire fence to curb the flow of migrants and has declared a 30-day state of emergency in a three-km deep strip of land along the frontier."There were three people who died unfortunately on the Polish side, as far as we know on the Belarusian side it was one woman," Polish border guard chief Tomasz Praga said.
The Belarusian border service said "clear signs of dragging a body from Poland to the Republic of Belarus were recorded" near the corpse found on the Belarusian side of the frontier.The Belarusian interior ministry declined to comment to Reuters. The Belarusian border service was not immediately available to comment.A pregnant woman had been detained after crossing the border with 13 children, none of them her own, and the children were admitted to hospital with COVID-19, he said.
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