4 found dead after crossing into Poland

WARSAW: Three people have died after crossing into Poland from Belarus, and a fourth person has been found dead on the Belarusian side of the border following a surge in illegal migration that has caused a diplomatic row.

Polish officials, who announced the three deaths inside Poland, gave no cause of death. The Belarusian border service identified the person found inside Belarus as “a woman of non-Slavic appearance” but did not say how she died.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said there had been almost 4 000 attempts to illegally cross Poland’s border in September and nearly 7 000 over the last two months.