5 Illegal Immigrants Detained at Bulgarian-Turkish Border

Five illegal immigrants were detained Saturday morning at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Photo by dariknews.bg

Five illegal immigrants were detained Saturday morning at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing on the Bulgarian-Turkish border.

According to reports of the Interior Ministry, an inspection with a gas analyzer of an Iveko truck found three men hidden in the trailer of an Iveco truck.

The inspection was conducted by border police at around 6 a.m. on Saturday.

The three men were Palestinian nationals carrying Syrian ID cards.

The illegal immigrants and the driver were detained at the Border Police Department in Svilengrad.

Earlier the same day, around half an hour after midnight, border police at Kapitan Andreevo found two men hidden in a Mercedes truck travelling from Turkey to Germany.

The illegal immigrants were detected using a gas analyzer.

The two had no ID papers but said they were Afghanistan nationals.

The two illegal immigrants and the driver of the truck, a 52-year-old Turkish national, were detained at the Border Police Department in Svilengrad.

Work on the cases continues, according to the press office of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry.

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