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Police detains migrants and migrant smugglers in two car chases

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A car with Polish license plates, driven by a Polish woman and transporting 10 Syrian nationals, was apprehended by police near the town of Dragoman not far from the Bulgaria-Serbia border. No people were reported injured during the police chase. Police attempted to pull over the car on Trakia motorway near Trayanovi Vrata tunnel, but the driver did not comply. The car chase ended some 100 kilometers away. The police arrested the driver and 10 migrants near the abandoned vehicle.

In another car chase on Tuesday night police intercepted an SUV transporting 8 illegal migrants in Burgas. The car chase began after the forty four-year-old Syrian driver refused to pull over near the village of Debelt. A national of Morocco managed to escape, but was later detained.




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