Latvia announced an attempt by illegal immigrants to cross the border from Belarus

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Twenty refugees, accompanied by armed people, tried to cross the Latvian border from Belarus, says the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Baltic republic, Janis Dombrava.

Latvian border guards managed to stop an attempt to break through the border.

After the conflict, masked people entered Latvian territory, damaged a distribution cabinet and stole two border surveillance cameras.

MOSCOW, October 7 – RIA Novosti. Twenty refugees, accompanied by unknown armed people who threatened Latvian border guards, tried to cross the Latvian border from Belarus, says the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Baltic republic, Janis Dombrava.

“Members of the national armed forces stopped an attempt by 20 illegal migrants to illegally cross our border... Those accompanying the illegal migrants, who were on the Belarusian side, were armed, expressed threats to (Latvian) military personnel, and also actively incited and drove a group of migrants towards Latvia,” Dombrava said on the social network X.

Nevertheless, he noted, the Latvian border guards managed to prevent the border from being broken through.

According to him, a few hours after this conflict, masked people entered the territory of Latvia, damaged a distribution cabinet and stole surveillance cameras.

The head of the state border service of the republic, Guntis Pujats, told LETA that two border surveillance cameras were stolen, but the necessary work is already being done to restore the damaged infrastructure.

Earlier, Dombrava reported that illegal migrants have tried to enter Latvia from Belarus almost 12 thousand times since the beginning of this year.