A record number of people attempted to cross the border between Poland and Belarus on Saturday, amid accusations that Belarus is facilitating migration to the European Union's eastern border.
The Polish Border Guard told CNN that Saturday's figure of of 739 attempted crossings was the most so far for a single day. They're the latest in a weeks-long migration crisis at the border, for which Poland imposed a state of emergency last month. Approximately 16,000 attempts to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border have been stopped since August, Poland's border agency has said. Of those, 5,000 took place in October.
In August, the prime ministers of Poland, Latvia and Lithuania accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of creating the crisis by driving migrants toward the European Union.On Friday, Poland also summoned Belarusian charge d'affaires Alyaksandr Czasnouski amid allegations of bullets being fired at Polish soldiers stationed along the border. Czasnouski has told press that"the information about the shots is not true.
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