Latvia’s border guard finds tunnel on Belarus border. 28 people tried to enter the country through it.

Source: LSM

Latvia’s border guard has discovered an underground tunnel used for illegal border crossings on the border with Belarus.

Border guards detained 28 people who tried to enter the country through the tunnel and returned them to Belarus.

The passage surfaced 20 meters (66 feet) from the border, camouflaged with moss, the border guard reported.

This is already the second underground tunnel that Latvia’s border guard has discovered on the border with Belarus. On August 10, in the Skrudaliena municipality (about 30 kilometers west of Kraslava), 15 people tried to cross the border through a tunnel.

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