“We drove through the woods in the dark for an hour. Three people were injured on the spot. A 20-year-old man had severe lower abdominal pain and fever. He was hungry and dehydrated. In addition to him, the injured husbands, Syrian doctors, needed help: the man had a laceration to his arm and the woman had a stab wound to his leg. The woman cried while treating the wound and talked about the one-year-old child who died in the forest, “the organization said.
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According to the PCPM, the three injured migrants spent a month and a half in the forest.
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In connection with the humanitarian situation at the Polish-Belarusian border, Gazeta Wyborcza pointed out that volunteers could not provide assistance to exhausted or wounded migrants in a section of the border in a state of emergency. Humanitarian organizations and the media do not have access to it.
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Due to the state of emergency and the lack of media access to the border areas, it is not known exactly how many victims the humanitarian crisis in the area has claimed so far, Radio Zet noted. According to various estimates, around 12 people have died at the Polish-Belarusian border in recent weeks.
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They move de facto on no man’s land because the Belarusian security forces have escorted them to the Polish border and the Polish ones refuse to let them go. So they can’t go back there.
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While Poles and European officials claim that it is an act of hybrid war by which President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime cynically abuses civilians as coercive forces to destabilize Europe, Minsk claims that it allows applicants for asylum in the EU only for humanitarian reasons. On the contrary, he blames the Poles for inhuman treatment.
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