A group of 28 migrants crossed the border fences from Belarus and temporarily entered Polish territory, according to the Polish border protection service.
All were arrested and taken back to the border, a spokesman for the agency said today.
The incident took place late yesterday, Friday night, near the village of Tseremza. The Polish officers were stoned by the Belarusian security forces.
A total of 41 border crossing attempts were recorded within 24 hours.
For weeks, thousands of migrants and refugees have been trying to cross the European Union’s external borders from Belarus to Poland or the Baltic states.
The EU accuses dictatorial Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging people from crisis areas to fly to Minsk in order to channel them illegally into the EU, thereby destabilizing the situation in the West.
EU member states have erected barbed wire fences to stop migrants.
According to Polish sources, another special flight took place on Friday from Minsk airport, this time to Iraq.
More than 400 people left Belarus on the flight, a spokesman for the intelligence co-ordinator, Stanislav Zarin, said on Twitter last night. However, a large number of migrants remain in Belarus.
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