A spokesman for the police in Bialystok states that the man was discovered by a police helicopter on Friday.
Documents found on the man indicate that he is a 24-year-old Syrian citizen, and that he arrived in Belarus in mid-September, spokesman Tomasz Krupa told Al Jazeera.
According to the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, at least ten other people have been found dead in the border area since August.
Thousands
Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused by Poland and others of sending refugees and migrants to the borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, in retaliation for EU sanctions against his regime.
According to Polish authorities, more than 10,000 people have tried to cross the border illegally since August, 6,700 in November alone.
Poland has sent 15,000 troops to the border area to prevent more from taking over, but some succeed.
1,500 are now in guarded reception centers in Poland, where they will have the opportunity to apply for asylum.
– STRESSED SITUATION: Over 10,000 refugees and migrants, many of them Kurds from countries in the Middle East, have been trying to cross the border from Belarus to Poland since August. Few succeed. Photo: Leonid Shcheglov / AP / NTB
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According to Polish border guards, there were between 3,000 and 4,000 others in the border area on Friday, where they live in a temporary tent camp.
Truer
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki this week accused Belarus of state terrorism.
NATO sources call it hybrid warfare and have promised to come to the country’s rescue, and the EU is threatening Belarus with new sanctions.
Mr Lukashenko has threatened to shut down supplies of Russian gas to Europe, which is piped in via Belarus, if the EU takes seriously the threat of tightening sanctions.
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