Column of up to 500 people including children led by border guards in escalation of deadly crisis
Belarusian authorities have escorted as many as 500 mainly Middle Eastern migrants to the Polish border in an escalation of a deadly crisis that has already left people desperate to reach the EU trapped between borders and at least seven dead due to exposure.
Videos published by Belarusian media on Monday showed armed Belarusian border guards in combat fatigues escorting the column of people, which included families with children, along a highway from the border town of Bruzgi and towards a forest that runs alongside Poland’s Podlaskie region.
