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Police intercept 70 illegal migrants on Trakia motorway

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70 illegal migrants were intercepted on Trakia motorway on Saturday night. The migrants were found in a van on a parking lot near the town of Sliven. They were transported by two Romanian citizens. 

The migrants, aged between 13 and 38, said they were from Afghanistan. 14 migrants received medical care due to exhaustion, the BNR’s correspondent in Sliven Stoyan Radev reported.




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