Polish officials discover a dead person in the Swislocz river between Poland and Belarus. The black man’s identity is unknown. Recently, however, dozens of migrants are still trying to cross the border between the two countries every day.
Polish border guards have discovered a dead person in Poland’s border area with Belarus. The body of a dark-skinned man was found in the Swislocz river near the village of Losiniany, a police spokesman told the PAP news agency. The river marks a section of the border between the two countries. The nationality of the dead man is unknown, he had no documents with him, the spokesman continued. The prosecutor is investigating.
In the late summer and autumn of last year, the situation on the border between Poland and Belarus escalated: thousands of people tried to enter the EU illegally. The European Union accuses the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of having brought migrants from crisis regions to the EU’s external border in an organized manner in order to put pressure on the West.
At the end of June, Poland completed the construction of a 5.5 meter high barrier on the land sections of the border. The Polish-Belarusian border is 418 kilometers long, of which 186 kilometers is overland, the rest through lakes and rivers.
However, according to the Polish border guards, several dozen migrants continue to try to cross the border every day. On Tuesday alone there were 80 people, most of whom came from Sudan. A group of ten people tried to crawl under the border fence, the border guards said on Twitter. The migrants would then have withdrawn back to the territory of Belarus.