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Wire fences have become a practice against migrants. PHOTO: Pixabay
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The body of an Iraqi migrant woman was found on the border between Poland and Belarus, the Belarusian authorities announced, against the background of growing tensions due to the problem with migrants, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
In recent months, several thousand migrants, most from the Middle East, have crossed the border between Belarus and the European Union into Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
The EU sees this as a form of retaliation against the Minsk regime, which faces international sanctions.
The body of a woman who does not appear to be of Slavic origin was found a meter from the border, a senior Belarusian border police source was quoted as saying by the state news agency BelTA.
According to Eugene Omes, “obvious signs” suggest that the woman’s body was “dragged” from the Polish side of the border.
The woman’s husband said that the Polish border guards took them against their will, barefoot and under threat, to the Belarusian side.
According to BelTA, the woman was found dead along with three Iraqi children aged 5 to 7 who were alive in a section of the Polish-Belarusian border.
Belarus has launched an investigation, and representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been invited to go to the scene, according to the same source.
Faced with a recent increase in migrants and tensions with Belarus, Poland imposed a 30-day state of emergency on its border in early September, AFP recalls.
Warsaw also sent 2,000 troops and began building a barbed wire fence to curb immigration.
In early August, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered an investigation into the death of an Iraqi man on the border with Lithuania who, according to Minsk, had been beaten.
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