MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd August, 2018) Bulgarian police arrested two Bulgarians and a foreigner for migrant trafficking near the town of Svoge, media reported on Wednesday citing the Interior Ministry.
During the operation, held on Monday, the police also detained 26 undocumented migrants, according to Focus Information Agency.
The operation was held after receiving the information on planned trafficking of undocumented migrants from a villa in the Iskar Gorge to the country's western border, the publication said.
The three traffickers along with eight migrants were detained in a van at the time of their departure, while the rest migrants were found in the villa, according to the media outlet. The migrants presented themselves as Iraqi Kurds.
Since 2015, Europe has been experiencing its worst migration crisis in recent history, struggling to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing hostilities in the middle Eastern and North African countries. Hundreds of thousands of migrants are trying to reach EU states using various routes, including via Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Balkan states, in particular, Bulgaria.
