The lorry had Lithuanian number plates. In its refrigerated compartment, Polish border guards found 34 migrants who had been hidden in the cargo hold behind a specially constructed partition. The migrants were from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.
Thirty of the migrants had applied for asylum in Latvia, whilst the remaining four had done so in Lithuania, the head of the State Border Guard’s Return and Asylum Affairs Department explained to Latvian Tel...
