A one-year-old child from Syria died in a forest near the Polish border. BelarusAccording to Polish medical workers, he became the youngest known victim of a crisis on the eastern fringe of the European Union.
In the confrontation between the EU and Belarus, thousands of people trying to reach the EU were still trapped in freezing conditions, and Belarus was accused of deliberately creating a crisis by flying in from the Middle East and facilitating their journey to the border.
Polish Emergency Medical Team PCPMAn NGO said the child was the son of a Syrian couple it helped in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“At around 2:26 in the morning, we received a report saying that at least one person needed medical assistance,” PCPM said on Twitter. “When we rushed to the scene, we found three people were injured. They have been in the forest for 1.5 months.”
PCPM said its staff encountered a young man with severe abdominal pain due to hunger and dehydration and a Syrian couple. The organization wrote on Twitter: “The man had a laceration on his arm and the woman had a stab wound on the calf.” “Their one-year-old child died in the forest.”
The cause of death of the boy has not yet been determined. In recent weeks, at least 13 people have died in the area, most of them due to exposure.
In recent days, the local Muslim community in the northeastern village of Bokhoniki Poland, The funerals of the two victims have been held. On Monday, the resident broadcasted the funeral of 19-year-old Syrian Ahmad al-Hasan to his family via Skype, who was found dead in the Burg River in eastern Poland on October 19. According to witnesses, Ahmed, who could not swim, was pushed into the water by a Belarusian soldier.
Verhard’s family is a man from Kobani, Syria. He died in a car accident while fleeing Polish police in October. His family said they were still waiting for his body.
“He left Syria like many others and went to Europe,” Fellhard’s cousin Rushwan Nabo said, he is a Syrian humanitarian worker.
Verhard boarded a direct flight from Erbil in northern Iraq to Minsk. “In Raqqa, Damascus and Aleppo, the easiest and fastest way to reach Europe It’s a direct flight to Belarus,” Nabo said.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of deliberately instigating a refugee crisis in retaliation for EU sanctions against his dictatorship.
According to the charity, more and more people have managed to cross the barbed wire between Poland and Belarus in recent days.
Charities and doctors have received an increase in requests for help from asylum seekers in the forest surrounding the safe zone. According to doctors, the most common medical emergencies they have treated are injuries from beatings, dehydration and hypothermia.
Rescuers urged the Polish government to build humanitarian bridges for those trapped on the border and allow them to enter Polish territory. As the temperature has dropped below freezing in recent days, charities worry that more people will die without the need for medical assistance.
Anna Chimilevska, the coordinator of the Foreigners’ Help Center, said: “Such tragic news is increasing. It’s just a matter of time.”
