Corpse in the Bug. It could be a migrant body

On Saturday, firefighters extracted the body from the Bug River in the Lublin Province. The police determine the identity and cause of the death of a man found, and the border guard does not rule out that it is the body of one of the migrants who tried to get from Belarus to Poland.

A spokesman for the Border Guard Department of the Border Guard, Captain Dariusz Sienicki, announced that the human corpse in the Bug was found on Saturday by the Patrol of the Border Guard from Janów Podlaski. Firefighters extracted the body from the river.

Possible drowning when trying to cross the border

According to the commissioner Barbara Salczyńska-Pyrchla from the police in Biała Podlaska, police and prosecutor worked at the place of discovery of the corpse, who decided to transfer the body to the section. The uniforms under the supervision of the prosecutor determine the identity and explain the circumstances of the man's death.

Capt. Sienicki does not rule out that it was the corpse of one of the migrants, whose group about two weeks ago tried to illegally cross the border from Belarus to Poland. At that time, migrants and activists reported that one of the people could drown.

– For two days, together with the fire brigade, we were looking for in that area using a sonar, with the participation of divers and no corpses were disclosed then – said Capt. Sienicki.

According to the Border Guard, from the beginning of the year, over 270 people tried to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border in the province. Lublin.