Baltic News Service / – BNS
December 30, 2011 Friday 8:59 AM EET
Estonian border guards catch eight Vietnamese, four Armenians near
Estonian-Russian border
TALLINN, Dec 30, BNS – Staffers of the Estonian Police and Border
Guard Board detained eight Vietnamese nationals and four Armenians
after they had illegally crossed the Estonian-Russian border on Boxing
Day.
The illegal border-crossing was detected by the team on duty at the
Luhamaa border guard base at 1:40 p.m. on Dec. 26 and the Vietnamese
and Armenian nationals who had entered Estonia illegally were
detained, spokespeople for the South prefecture of the Police and
Border Guard Board told BNS on Friday.
The detention was made on a field near Miikse village in the territory
of the southeastern rural municipality of Meremae.
Criminal proceedings have been opened with regard to the detained individuals.
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