May 14 (BTA) – Attempts by illegal migrants to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border increased seven times between January and April 2021 compared to a year earlier, the Interior Ministry said on Friday. Bulgarian border police stopped 3,978 illegal migrants from entering the country. A hundred and forty-seven people were detained, of whom 120 outside the perimeter of border crossings. The majority were from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
(DF) Attempts by Illegal Migrants to Enter Bulgaria Increase Severalfold
