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Refugees on the border with Poland near Kuznica: The situation is quiet for the time being
Photo: Viktor Tolochko / imago images / SNA
According to the Polish police, a group of several hundred migrants on the EU's external border between Poland and Belarus tried in vain to overcome the border fortifications.
Police officers, border guards and soldiers were pelted with stones in the incident near the village of Starzyna, a police spokesman said on Monday evening.
In contrast, the situation at the Kuznica border crossing, where, according to Polish information, 3,500 migrants had gathered on the Belarusian side during the day, was initially calm in the evening.
The refugees had started to set up a tent camp there, wrote the spokesman for the coordinator for secret services, Stanislaw Zaryn, on Twitter.
He also posted pictures showing people in winter jackets as well as tents and sleeping bags under the roof of the border clearance station.
Poland's border guards had previously expressed concern that migrants might try to cross the border by force at Kuznica.
The information cannot be verified independently because Poland has declared a state of emergency in the border region.
Journalists and helpers are not allowed in.
This also applies to the border area on the Belarusian side.
On Poland's border with Belarus, thousands of migrants on the Belarusian side have been waiting for several days at temperatures around freezing point in makeshift camps in the forest.
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko is accused of bringing refugees from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.
kfr / dpa