LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia said Wednesday they discovered 30 migrants hidden in freight train wagons carrying clay.
The migrants included 12 children and a pregnant woman, police said. They said they were from Syria, Iran and Afghanistan.
The train with 20 wagons was traveling from Serbia to Slovenia when police discovered the migrants at the Dobova border crossing with Croatia on Tuesday.
Slovenian police said the migrants were covered in clay as they tried to cross illegally into the European Union country.
Police said their lives were endangered because of a lack of oxygen and the clay thickening.