Poland to send equipment, officers to guard Hungary's border

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WARSAW, Muharram 3, 1437, Oct 16, 2015, SPA -- Poland will send around 70 border officials to Hungary to help it secure its border with Serbia, Reuters quoted Poland's Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz as saying after a European Union summit on Thursday. Landlocked Hungary has struggled to deal with the largest wave of migrants in Europe since World War Two and has already built a fence along its border with Serbia despite criticism from international partners. In the nine months to September, Hungary reported 204,000 people crossing its borders who did not have the appropriate passports and visas. That was a 13-fold increase on the same period in 2014. Because of the fence, the flow of migrants from Serbia has already dropped steeply. "We are sending five highly specialised vehicles with night vision devices (to Hungary), with equipment, which will allow for guarding the entire border (with Serbia)," Kopacz was quoted as saying by Polish state agency PAP early on Friday. --SPA 10:35 LOCAL TIME 07:35 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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