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Migrants settee for the nighttime successful the logistics halfway successful the checkpoint "Kuznitsa" astatine the Belarus-Poland borderline adjacent Grodno, Belarus, connected Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Some of the migrants person children with them astatine the borderline successful their hopeless bid to scope the EU. Most are fleeing conflict, poorness and instability successful the Middle East and elsewhere. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA via AP)

WARSAW – A Polish authorities authoritative said Wednesday that migrants who person spent days successful a makeshift campy connected the Belarusian broadside of Poland's eastbound borderline are being taken distant by autobus by Belarusian officials.

Since Nov. 8 a ample radical of radical from the Middle East has been stuck astatine a borderline crossing with Poland, hoping to participate Europe. Most are fleeing struggle oregon hopelessness astatine location and purpose to scope Germany oregon different occidental European countries.

Tensions spiked connected Tuesday arsenic Polish forces astatine the borderline utilized h2o cannons and teardrop state against stone-throwing migrants. Warsaw accused the authorities of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of giving fume grenades and different weapons to those trying to transverse the frontier.

But connected Wednesday Polish authorities said the concern had calmed down, and portion they registered 161 attempts to transverse Poland's borderline illegally, the ample migrant campy astatine the Kuznica crossing — which is present closed — had less people.

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“I person received accusation that Lukashenko has provided the archetypal buses which migrants are boarding and leaving,” Maciej Wasik, a lawman interior minister, said. “The campy tract adjacent Kuznica is dilatory emptying."

It was not wide wherever they were being taken, and the accusation provided by officials is hard to verify owed to restrictions journalists look successful moving connected some sides of the border. A authorities of exigency successful Poland is keeping journalists, quality rights workers and others distant from the borderline on a portion that is 3 kilometers (2 miles) deep.

Iraq has been appealing for its citizens to alert home, telling them the mode into the EU is closed. The archetypal flights are scheduled for Thursday.

The Belarusian authorities quality bureau Belta reported that migrants were being fixed structure wrong a logistics halfway astatine the border, giving them the accidental aft galore days to slumber indoors alternatively than successful tents outdoors.

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The West has accused President Alexander Lukashenko of utilizing the migrants arsenic pawns to destabilize the 27-nation bloc successful retaliation for its sanctions connected his authoritarian regime. Belarus denies orchestrating the crisis.

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