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30 migrants arrested in Slovenia for crossing border illegally

Xinhua, December 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thirty migrants were arrested in a village in southwest Slovenia on Thursday night for entering the country illegally.

The migrants include 25 Afghans and five Pakistanis. Police believe they reached Slovenia's Podgorje after crossing Slovenia-Croatia border illegally. The migrants will be handed over to Croatian authorities, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) has reported.

Podgorje, which locates on a route between Croatia and Italy, has registered an increase in illegal crossings recently, according to STA.

In the first 10 months this year, Slovenian police detained 792 migrants for illegal border crossings, according to data from the Interior Ministry. The figure marks an 89.5 percent increase from the same period a year ago. Endit