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Two people were arrested overnight Sunday near Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey for allegedly driving cars crammed with migrants who had entered the country illegally and were seeking to travel on into Europe’s prosperous heartland.
A police statement said both suspects were foreign nationals but provided no further detail. In both cases they were carrying five migrants in each car, while the one driver allegedly tried to escape arrest by driving off fast but was eventually forced to stop.
On Friday and Saturday, police arrested another six suspected members of migrant-smuggling gangs driving cars with a total of 37 passengers.
While most migrants enter Greece illegally by sea from Libya and Turkey, thousands still cross the land border from Turkey despite the wall Greek authorities have erected along much of the frontier.
