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Two guards hurt during violence at Poland-Belarus border
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25.10.2021 | 20:22
Two border guards were hurt when a group of 60 migrants tried to forcefully cross the border from Belarus, the Polish border guards office said on Monday.
The agency said in a statement the incident happened on Sunday evening near the village of Usnarz Grony.
They said a group of about 60 migrants “tried to force their way into Poland” wielding sticks and stones.
“One of the soldiers was hit by a foreigner with a branch in the face and another with a stone in the face. Both had to be taken to the hospital,” the border guards office said. They have since been released.
Several other officers suffered minor injuries, according to the statement, but did not require medical assistance
The statement was released alongside a video purported to show people attempting to pull the barbed-wire fence at the border with branches.
The border guards office claimed in its statement that some of the people present were “Belarusian soldiers in civilian clothes” and that they were cutting through the fence with scissors.
“The migrants did not manage to get to the Polish side,” it added.
Poland has deployed 7,000 soldiers at its border area after declaring a state of emergency due to an influx of migrants.
