Police pick up 24 migrants, arrest two smugglers
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Police detected a total of 24 migrants who entered Greece illegally from the Turkish border in two separate incidents between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
A non-national migrant smuggler was arrested at the Kipoi border crossing after they found 18 migrants in a trailer attached to the truck he was driving.
The authorities detected the migrants using devices that can pick up a heartbeat.
On New Year’s Day, a second migrant smuggler was arrested on the Egnatia highway between Kipoi and Alexandroupoli as he was transporting 6 migrants in a private vehicle.
Both smugglers are expected to be led before prosecutors, while their two vehicles and cellphones were confiscated. [AMNA]
