Two Afghan citizens arrested on Armenian-Turkish border - Russian FSB
Officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Armenia arrested two Afghan nationals as they were trying to illegally cross the border with Turkey, FSB’s Press Service said on Friday. According to the press release, local residents working near the border on July 6, saw a stranger on the bank of the Araks river who had come from Turkey. He tried to cross the river and hide in the nearby bushes. They made an alarming call, and in a few minutes border guards started a secret chase. In a few minutes, they caught sight of a second person and arrested him on the spot. The arrested offenders said they were citizens of Afghanistan and tried to get to the EU countries through Armenia. They had a backpack with personal belongings and two Nokia mobile phones in it. On the same day, the arrestees were handed over to the Armenian National Security Service. Major General Anatoly Mikheev, chief of the border department of the Russia FSB Service in Armenia, decided to reward the local residents with valuable gifts. “The cooperation between border guards and local residents is a major cornerstone of Armenia's border security,” the FSB said in the press release.
