Footage also shows water cannon being used as dozens of young men approach border fence throwing rocks

Polish riot police on the country’s border with Belarus have fired water cannons and teargas at people forcibly attempting to cross into the European Union.

The clashes come a day after EU governments approved sanctions against the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, for allegedly engineering the crisis by allowing thousands of asylum-seekers from the Middle East to travel through Belarus to the border with Poland.

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