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Bulgaria’s Border Police detains 43 foreign nationals without IDs

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 Forty three foreigners without IDs were detained by the Bulgarian Border Police at Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint at the Bulgaria-Turkey border. The migrants travelled to Austria onboard a freight train. The illegal immigrants admitted that they boarded the train at the Edirne train station, Turkey. Twenty eight of them said they were Iraqi nationals and fifteen of the migrants said they came from Syria. The authorities are to verify their identity. There are some underage people among the detainees. They were accommodated in a specialized center.




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