BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Two men from Ukraine have been arrested in Slovakia after they helped to smuggle a group of 25 illegal migrants, believed to be Egyptians, over the Slovak border, an official said Monday.
Spokesman for the prosecutor s office in the eastern Slovak town of Kosice, Milan Filocko, said the two were arrested late Friday, along with 16 of the immigrants, near the eastern Slovak village of Podhorod, close to the border with Ukraine.
Filocko said that one of the immigrants, a 19-year-old Egyptian, died of exhaustion and hypothermia shortly after the group crossed the border. The whereabouts of the remaining immigrants, all of them believed to be Egyptian citizens, were not known, he said. The two Ukrainians, who were placed in police custody, face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. AP
