In recent weeks, thousands of migrants from crisis areas in the Middle East and Africa have traveled to Belarus in order to get from there to the EU.
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Swinoroje A small dot on the driver’s cell phone shows the location. The all-terrain vehicle of the organization Doctors Without Borders comes to a stop on a forest road a few kilometers north of the village of Swinoroje. The doctor Maga Szczepanska, three doctors and four journalists get out and disappear into the night forest. A whistle sounds. “Doctor?” It sounds out of the darkness. “Doctor!” One calls back. Then we hear the groans.
Ten people are lying and sitting in a small clearing on this Friday evening: the Hussein family with five children and their three male companions. Awin, the mother, is not responsive. Szczepanska examines them. The body temperature is 28.6 degrees, the woman’s stomach is puffy.
“Your clothes are soaked,” says Szczepanska, “we have to warm them up.” One of the companions explains in German that she drank dirty water. The group has been traveling in the swampy area of the Bialowieza jungle for about two weeks. Nobody can say exactly.
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