Polish police find body of Syrian man near Belarus border

Trucks from 16th Pomeranian Mechanised Division are seen behind a barbed wire at the temporary camp during migrant crisis on Belarusian - Polish border near Siemianowka, Poland, November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

BIALYSTOK, Poland (Reuters) -The body of a young Syrian man has been found in Poland near the border with Belarus, Polish police said on Saturday, amid mounting international tension over a migrant crisis the European Union says has been orchestrated by Minsk.

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East are sheltering in freezing conditions on the border between Belarus and EU states Poland and Lithuania, which are refusing to let them cross.