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Migrants: 87 foreigners detained in attempt to cross illegally Bulgaria-Serbia border

Eighty-seven foreign nationals have been detained over the past 24 hours as they tried to cross illegally the Bulgarian-Serbian border, Border Police General Directorate said. About 8 pm last night a border policeman from the town of Tran found 54 persons without ID documents in the area of the village of Bankya who declared their nationalities as Afghan, Pakistani and Iraqi. Forty one of them who have been registered at the State Agency for Refugees have been taken away from the border zone. The rest thirteen persons have been taken to the center for temporary accommodation in Lubimets. Border police from Belogradchik have detained sixteen Iraqis not far from the Bulgaria-Serbia border, and their colleagues from Kalotina – seventeen Afghans.




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