Many of the refugees are traveling with young children and lack food, water and warm clothing. The Polish police have prevented them from crossing the fence by firing tear gas at the migrants.
More than 2,000 migrants try to cross the Belarus border with Poland in the Grodno region, and the situation “is very tense”, as reported today by the Belarusian State Border Committee.
In the images offered by the Belarusian portal Zerkalo it is seen how the Polish police use tear gas sprays to disperse those who tried to cross the border. Some refugees use shovels, pieces of wood and road signs to destroy the wire.
As reported by the official Belarusian agency, BELTA, the majority would be Kurdish migrants, who want to cross into Polish territory to later settle in Germany.
Many of the refugees travel with young children and lack food, water and warm clothing. The photos show entire families sitting around bonfires.
Across the border, hundreds of Polish policemen wearing riot shields and firearms are trying to maintain order and prevent migrants from entering.
Faced with the impossibility of crossing into Polish territory, in the late afternoon the migrants set up tents on the edge of the forest in front of the border.
The neighboring countries of Belarus -Poland, Latvia and Lithuania- They have declared a state of emergency in recent months due to the dramatic increase in irregular immigration from Belarusian territory.
Those countries and the European Union (EU) accuse the Belarusian president, Alexandr Lukashenko, to provoke the current migration crisis in revenge for their support to the Belarusian opposition in exile.
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