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Illegal crossings of border up almost 80% in first quarter

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By: P.T., STA

Slovenian police recorded 2,023 attempts at illegal crossing of the border in the first three months of the year, an increase of 77.5% over the same period last year.

Afghanis accounted for over a third of all those intercepted, the latest police statistics show. A total of 664 migrants were returned to foreign law enforcement, a 60% increase over the year before, with the vast majority returned to Croatia.

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