Stranded in Belarus: one Syrian's bid to rescue his parents near Polish border

Syrian Kurd Gordi, 33, looks at his mobile while being interviewed by Reuters during the migrant crisis near the Polish-Belarusian border in Siemiatycze, Poland, October 27, 2021. Picture taken October 27, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

SIEMIATYCZE, Poland (Reuters) - Gordi, a Syrian Kurd who lives in Austria, says his parents are trapped in forest between the Belarusian and Polish borders with little food or water and he has journeyed to Poland in a desperate bid to rescue them, despite the risk of arrest.

His parents are among thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa seeking to enter Poland, part of the European Union, from Belarus but face a new Polish razor wire fence erected by Warsaw under a state of emergency.