site.btaSeventeen Illegal Migrants Detained at Lesovo Border Crossing

Seventeen illegal migrants were detained while entering Bulgaria through the Lesovo border control checkpoint on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said in a press release.

Two women and fifteen men without identity documents, who said they were from Iraq, were found in the cargo compartment of a truck with a trailer. The driver of the vehicle, a Turkish national, was detained for assisting foreign citizens to cross into Bulgaria illegally by using a motor vehicle. The seventeen undocumented individuals were also detained for entering the country unlawfully through the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the Ministry said.

On Tuesday, the Border Police General Directorate reported the detention of ten illegal migrants on the Samokov–Sofia road.