‘People treated like weapons’: more deaths feared at Poland-Belarus border

Medecins Sans Frontieres manager says migrants being pushed back are often dangerously weak

An international aid worker has warned of more deaths at Poland's border with Belarus, describing how desperate and often dangerously weakened migrants including very young children are being pushed back across the frontier.

Crystal van Leeuwen, a medical emergency manager with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said NGOs must urgently gain access to a secure militarised zone on the Polish side and that migrants' claims for international protection must be respected.