On Saturday, Border Guard officers detained five foreigners for aiding in the illegal crossing of the border - two citizens of Syria and citizens of Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
Since the beginning of the year, the Border Guard has prevented over 18,000 attempts to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border, of which over 7,000 took place in October.
From September 2, due to migratory pressure in the border zone with Belarus - in 183 localities in the voivodeship Podlasie and Lublin regions - a state of emergency is in force.
