Authorities claim man was hit by a ricochet from a warning shot,in what is believed to be first fatal EU border shooting of crisisThe UN’s refugee agency has demanded an urgent investigation after a man fleeing violence in Afghanistan was killed by Bulgarian border guards in what is believed to be the first fatal border shooting in the European Union in the current refugee crisis.
The unnamed victim was fraction of a group of more than 50 Afghan men who were resisting arrest near the south-eastern city of Sredets after crossing the nearby border with Turkey, according to Bulgaria’s interior ministry. It claimed that a warning shot fired by a border guard ricocheted into the the man, or who died later on his way to hospital.
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Source: theguardian.com