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A 35-year-old Iranian lady has reportedly been shot within the eye on the Polish-Belarusian border and is at the moment in hospital, the Egala Affiliation, which supplies help to migrants, posted on social media Friday.
The group, citing the girl’s account, mentioned she was close to the fence when, “out of the blue, with none warning, a shot was fired.” In accordance with the girl’s account, “the shot was fired by one in all two uniformed folks on the Polish aspect of the fence.”
The spokeswoman for the Podlasie Border Guards, Main Katarzyna Zdanowicz, mentioned that border guards from Dubicze Cerkiewne had obtained a report a few lady with a watch damage close to the border. “The Border Guard patrol despatched to the positioning determined to right away name an ambulance for the international lady, who’s at the moment in hospital,” she mentioned.
The spokeswoman of the sixteenth Pomeranian Mechanized Division, Main Magdalena Koscinska, informed Polish press company PAP that the military had not taken half on this incident.
“There have been no troopers there on the time of this incident. The lady was noticed by a police patrol and the Border Guard was notified. The lady was taken care of and brought to hospital. The troopers weren’t concerned there,” Koscinska mentioned, including that the girl was shot with a pellet gun, and the military doesn’t have such weapons.
Tensions have risen in Poland after three troopers have been arrested two weeks in the past by navy police for firing warning photographs at a bunch of individuals making an attempt to drive their means throughout the border from Belarus.
Information web site Onet reported that on the flip of March and April, the three troopers have been detained after firing warning photographs into the air and floor close to a bunch of fifty folks.
Protection Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned this week in a press release that the scenario was “unacceptable” and wanted “to be absolutely defined. Troopers guarding state safety should ensure that authorized procedures defend them,” wrote the minister. “I’ll at all times stand on the aspect of the distinction of Polish troopers.”
The federal government reintroduced a 90-day exclusion zone banning folks from approaching the Polish aspect of the border on June 13 after a Polish soldier died after being stabbed over the border fence.
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