Belarus says it has detained more than 11,500 illegal migrants this year -RIA
MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Belarus has detained more than 11,500 illegal migrants in 2021, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Belarusian Security Council as saying on Thursday, with around 5,000 deported from the country.
RIA cited security council head Alexander Volfovich as saying that an Iraqi evacuation flight scheduled for Thursday to fly out migrants amid a crisis on the Belarus-Poland border had not taken place, with around 200 migrants waiting at the airport. (Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Catherine Evans)
