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Bucharest, Sept. 16, 2019 (Xinhua/NAN) Two Tunisian citizens were caught on Monday trying to exit Romania through the western Curtici border crossing point, hiding on a freight train that transported vehicles to Belgium, local border police said.
Following a check conducted on a freight train running on the Romania-Belgium route, they discovered two males, hiding on the platform of a wagon loaded with local Dacia Duster cars.
According to the border police in Arad County, in the western part of which is the crossing point, the two men were detained and brought to the headquarters of the border police for investigations.
However, based on preliminary investigation, the duo were Tunisian citizens, aged 29 and 31, who admitted to trying to illegally cross the border with Hungary into the Schengen area to get to Western Europe.
According to a local border police, three migrants from Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea were stopped at Romania’s northern border after illegally crossing the Ukrainian border.
Foreign citizens often violate Romania’s border not because they want to stay in Romania but because they plan to enter the Schengen area.
In recent years, the country had become a springboard for refugees from the Middle East and Africa seeking to enter the Schengen zone through Hungary, the only Schengen country bordering Romania. (Xinhua/NAN)
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Edited by Yahaya Isah/Abdulfatah Babatunde