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Twenty migrants detained in minibus on Yambol-Sliven highway

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Twenty illegal immigrants have been detained in a minibus on the Yambol-Sliven highway, Southeastern Bulgaria. Neither of them has ID papers. The group has been accommodated at the refugee center in Elhovo. The driver is a 24-year-old Bulgarian national from Svilengrad. The police have found six men, two women and twelve children in the bus, and all of them have claimed they are Afghan.




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