WARSAW, July 26: Polish border guards said on Monday they had arrested 19 illegal immigrants from Asia hidden in a lorry at Poland's frontier with Germany.
Border guard spokesman Andrzej Kaminski was quoted by the PAP news agency as saying that the 14 men and five women comprised 12 from Vietnam, three from Afghanistan, two from India and two from Nepal.
The lorry driver, who lives in Warsaw, was charged with human trafficking and faces five years in prison. Clandestine immigrants from Asia are regularly detained in Poland, which joined the European Union on May 1 and whose eastern border is now also that of the 25-nation bloc. -AFP
