Bulgaria's IntMin Reports Slight Increase in Migrant Pressure on Border with Turkey

Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova said that there has been slight increase in the migrant pressure exerted on the country's border with Turkey in the past few days.

Speaking to journalists in parliament on Friday, Bachvarova revealed that a group of thirty migrants have been detained near the Black Sea town of Primorsko.

The interior minister added that migrants are being detained not only on the border itself, but also in the interior of the country.

She assured that all refugees are undergoing the same procedures of registration and identification.

Bachvarova said that on average 1200 people attempt to cross the border from Bulgaria into Turkey each month.

Meanwhile, Bulgarian authorities detained 23 illegal immigrants at the Kapitan Andreevo – railway station checkpoint at the border with Turkey.

The group, which consisted of eight men, eight women and seven children, was hiding in a freight train transporting magnesium ore from Turkey to Hungary.

With the help of gas analyser, the border police officers found the migrants in the last carriage of the train.

None of the migrants was in the possession of identity documents. Eleven of them identified themselves as citizens of Iraq, while twelve claimed to come from Syria.

The migrants have been taken to the refugee centre in Elhovo on Friday.

The interior ministry informs that in the past 24 hours, authorities have prevented ten attempts of 157 illegal immigrants to cross the border with Turkey.

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