posted by zaina19 on September, 2007 as Human Rights
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3 girls found dead in mountains 14/09/2007
Warsaw - Three Chechen girls, one a six-year-old, died as they tried to cross into Poland illegally with their mother through the mountains at the Ukraine border, Polish border guards said on Friday.
Guards found the exhausted woman, carrying a two-year-old girl, 20m from the border late on Thursday and she told them where to find the bodies of her other daughters.
"The woman was a Russian citizen of Chechen ethnicity and crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border illegally," said spokesperson Jacek Sonta. "She said her daughters hadn't survived the hardship of the journey."
The woman said she had been wandering the mountains for four days, during which it had been cold and wet. The bodies were found at an altitude of 1 100m.
The woman and the two-year-old are in hospital. Polish authorities are carrying out post-mortems on the bodies of the girls, aged six, 10 and 13.
Polish border guards stopped more than 1 500 people trying to enter the EU member country in the first half of 2007. Most were from the former Soviet Union.
The Russian region of Chechnya has suffered more than a decade of bloodshed since a separatist rebellion broke out, although large-scale fighting has now died down.
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