Third Ukrainian truck driver dies in Poland border blockades-TV


FILE PHOTO: Trucks line up in a long queue to cross the Polish-Ukrainian border at the Dorohusk-Jagodzin crossing, in Ludwinow, Poland, December 4, 2023. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki/File Photo

(Reuters) - A third Ukrainian truck driver has died in blockades at the Polish border staged by Polish truckers, Ukraine's Suspilne public broadcaster said on Saturday.

Suspilne, quoting an official from Ukraine's international trucking association, said the driver took ill at the Krakivets-Korczowa crossing -- one of four points affected by the protests. He died while being taken to a hospital.

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