The body of a Syrian youth was found dumped by others in a river

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Polish divers have recovered the body of a 19-year-old Syrian youth from a river on the border with Belarus, the official Polish news agency reported, citing police and border guards.

The Polish news agency reported that border guards had been searching for the young man since Tuesday after they arrested another Syrian man who said people from Belarus had pushed him and another man into the river.

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have recorded big increases in migrants from countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq trying to sneak across their borders from Belarus, in what Warsaw and Brussels describe as a form of pressure on the European Union in response to sanctions it imposed on Minsk.

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