20 May 2003
At least two dozen illegal migrants from China rounded up in Belarus in May
Belarusian border guards rounded up 26 illegal migrants from China this month in the Brest region alone. Sixteen were stopped by border guards of the Pinsk unit. The migrants were examined for SARS symptoms and expelled.
On the evening of May 19, border guards apprehended 10 Chinese at the border near Brest. They had a Polish operator's mobile phone and a radio transmitter. The border guards also took into custody four
Belarusians who were suspected to have been accompanying the group, allegedly for an award of $10,000 each.
The migrants were examined by doctors and transferred to a detention facility in Brest. The Chinese said they left their country more than six weeks ago, whereas the SARS incubation period is estimated at 10 days.
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