2024-04-17 23:31:57
Tuesday, April 16, around 10:30 a.m. in the morning, in the section guarded by the Białowieża border checkpoint, officers encountered a woman who needed urgent medical assistance.
During the operation, it turned out that the foreigner was an Ethiopian citizen and had given birth a few hours ago. A military ambulance was called, which immediately transported the woman and the newborn girl to the hospital in Hainuvka.
“Security, which is our absolute priority, does not exclude humanity. A woman with a newborn baby in the Belarusian forest near our border received obvious help. Two lives were saved. Thank you to the border guards for a well-executed campaign!” – commented M. Duszczykas, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, on social media.
From 2024 In the beginning of 2018, the officers of the Podlaskie border guard department provided assistance to 109 migrants who illegally crossed the Polish-Belarusian border in 74 incidents.
Search and rescue intervention groups located in the service territory of the border guard posts in Plaska, Dubičiai Cherkina, Belovezh, Narevka and Cheremsha have already operated 13 times at the Polish-Belarusian border. Assistance was provided to 22 foreigners.
Recently, the number of illegal attempts to cross the Polish border has increased again. in 2024 in April recorded 3,301 attempts to cross the Polish-Belarusian border in violation of the law in the section protected by the Border Guard.
In turn, from January this year. recorded more than 6 thousand cases of illegal border crossing between Poland and Belarus. Migrants from 28 different countries, including Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon and Myanmar, attempted to do so.
2024-04-17 23:31:57