MINSK, October 25. /TASS/. Members of Poland’s security structures have broken the legs of two migrants and pushed them out to Belarusian territory, the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus said in a statement.
"[On the evening of October 24,] Belarusian border guards discovered two foreigners near a fence on the border with Poland who could not move about on their own and were in need of medical aid. An Afghan national said that the military on the other side of the border had detained them and savagely beaten them. In addition to physical violence, tear gas was used against unarmed people, and then, being threatened with violence, they were expelled into Belarusian territory," the statement said.
Medics who arrived on site diagnosed the Afghan national with a closed ankle fracture, while a Bangladeshi national had lacerated wounds and a closed foot fracture.
Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian border guards make regular attempts to drive migrants toward Belarus or leave the bodies of dead refugees on the border. In 2022, operatives from the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus intercepted over 3,800 attempts to force out of EU countries about 31,000 foreigners. Since August 2021, Belarusian border guards have discovered 38 bodies of dead migrants on the border with EU, including 19 on the Polish border, 10 - on the border with Latvia and nine - on the Lithuanian border.