Arad border police caught 19 Afghans and Tunisians who tried to leave the country illegally, hiding in trucks checked at the Nadlac II Border Checkpoint or walking to the border with Hungary, according to AGERPRES.
According to a press release sent on Thursday by the Arad Border Police, five migrants from Afghanistan, aged between 16 and 19, were found in a truck driven by a Romanian.
During the inspection of the car, the border police noticed two other people walking past the counters where the document checks are carried out, establishing that they are people from Tunisia, aged 21 and 25 years.
Also in Nadlac II Border Checkpoint, 12 people were discovered in two trucks driven by a Romanian and a Turkish citizen.
"Both drivers were transporting, according to the documents accompanying the goods, textiles, respectively detergent from Romania for companies from France and the Czech Republic," the release reads.
Following the checks, it was established that the migrants are from Afghanistan, are between 16 and 21 years old and seek asylum seekers in our country.
In all cases, investigation is being made into how migrants arrived in trucks, with drivers risking criminal liability.