Poland: Two Polish soldiers injured after illegal migrants throw stones at border areas

Polish Border Guard said ir two soldiers were injured while attempting to stop migrants trying to enter country, news ncy Sputnik reported on Monday. According to report, a scuffle broke out between migrants and Polish soldiers when y were trying to stop illegal migration on October 25. Citing statement released by Polish Border Guard, news ncy said this was second such attempt at border in last week. According to statement, about 60 and 70 people attacked security forces with stones in which two of soldiers got seriously injured. A video showing men trying to break razor-wire border fence with a branch and helmeted Polish troops watching from nearby was posted on Border Guards website.

"Over weekend, two attempts of a border assault were recorded. Aggressive groups of about 60 and 70 people threw stones and branches at border guard officers and soldiers of Polish Army. Two soldiers were hospitalised. Both attempts of violent crossing into Poland were thwarted", Sputnik quoted Polish Border Guard as saying in a statement. It is worth mentioning that many people have been trying to cross border of Poland, Latvia and Lithuania from Belarus. However, Belarus, which has one of lowest poverty rates in Europe, denied such migration from ir country.

Poland deploys 6,000 soldiers on border

tably, to prevent illegal migration, Warsaw has anunced an emergency on border and deployed nearly 6,000 extra soldiers, according to Sputnik. Recently, at least eight people have died along border between Belarus and European Union, where multiple groups of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants have been stranded for weeks in increasingly dire conditions. On October 22, Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appealed for urgent action to save lives and prevent furr suffering at border with Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. According to assessment of UNHRC, situation would furr deteriorate amid approaching winter. 

UNHCR vocates for group to be granted asylum

In a statement released by UNHRC Regional Director for Europe, Pascale Moreau, he said, “When fundamental human rights are t protected, lives are at stake.” "It is unacceptable that people have died, and lives of ors are precariously hanging in balance. y are held host by a political stalemate which needs to be solved w," he said. tably, UN ncy mandated to aid and protect refugees has been vocating for group to be granted asylum since a lot of migrants have expressed ir wish to settle eir in Belarus or in Poland. 

Im: AP