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Slovenia detains migrants in Bulgarian mini-bus

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Slovenia’s Police have detained 43 illegal migrants in a mini-bus with Bulgarian registration plates, Horizont channel of the Bulgarian National Radio reports. The mini-bus was stopped on Sunday evening near the town of Sežana, Southwest Slovenia. The driver is a thirty-nine-year-old Bulgarian national and the detained illegal passengers are nationals of Pakistan and Bangladesh. On Thursday night last week Slovenia’s Police detained a total of 209 migrants at the usual migrant routes along the border as a result of the enhanced control.




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