27-06-2012
Officers of State Border Service of Ukraine detained 10 illegal migrants in Transcarpathia. Local inhabitants informed border guards of BS “Palad Komarivtsi” about unknown person stealing into the state border. Clear cooperation of border guards and local population permitted to apprehend the travellers soon. They were caught 100 m before the state border. The group composed of 5 women and 5 men having no any documents. As it was established later, all of them were citizens of Somalia. They intended to get to the countries of Western Europe to improve their life conditions. Now, detainees of the age 16-34 give explanations in order to establish all circumstances of their illegal trip. However, according to previous explanations it became known that migrants were taken to the border by unknown man by the bus, who pointed out the direction of their trip and left them. But, during the trip, citizens of Somalia got lost and were detained by the border guards.