PLAYAS DE TIJUANA : A girl who has been traveling in a caravan of Central American migrants hopping to get to the United States, is helped to climb the metal barrier separating Mexico and the US to cross the border on Monday — AFP ANKARA, Dec 04 (Agencies): The bodies of three migrants believed to have frozen to death were found in three separate Turkish border villages, state media reported on Tuesday.
The first body of an Afghan migrant was discovered close to the border with Greece in Serem village in the northwestern province of Edirne, state news agency Anadolu said.
The two other migrants were found in nearby villages - Akcadam and Adasarhanli - days after they had died but their nationalities were not given.
Turkish officials believe the three migrants froze to death, Anadolu said, but their bodies have been sent to Istanbul for further examination.
Authorities caught an Afghan man, named as Jamaluddin Malangi by Anadolu, who told reporters in Edirne that Greek police sent him back to Turkey on a boat via River Evros between Greece and Turkey.
The area is a major crossing point for refugees and migrants trying to enter the European Union.
Malangi, who claimed he knew one of the migrants found dead, said that they sought help after crossing into Greece by knocking on doors.
"We wanted help and during this, someone must have called the police and the Greek police officers came and caught us. First they took us to the police station then they took us near to the river where there were two boats," Malangi said, quoted by Anadolu.
"We were sent back after being put on them (the boats)" to Turkey, he added.
It was not clear whether the migrants found dead were all part of the same group who entered Greece with Malangi or had separately tried to enter the EU member state.
Meanwhile, Denmark plans to house the country's most unwelcome foreigners in a most unwelcoming place: a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables and crematory of a centre for researching contagious animal diseases.
As if to make the message clearer, one of the two ferries that serve the island is called the Virus.
"They are unwanted in Denmark, and they will feel that," Inger Stojberg, the country's immigration minister, wrote on Facebook.
On Friday, the centre-right government and the right-wing Danish People's Party announced an agreement to house as many as 100 people on Lindholm Island - foreigners who have been convicted of crimes and rejected asylum-seekers who cannot be returned to their home countries.
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