Greek police arrested eight suspected migrant smugglers over three days along the country's northeastern border with Tur...

Greek police arrested eight suspected migrant smugglers over three days along the country's northeastern border with Turkey, after officers stopped cars packed with illegal migrants trying to push deeper into Europe. Two arrests came overnight Sunday near the land border. Both suspects were foreign nationals, according to a police statement, and each was caught driving a car carrying five migrants who had entered Greece illegally. One of the drivers tried to flee at high speed before police forced him to stop. Six more suspected smugglers were arrested on Friday and Saturday in separate incidents. Those vehicles were carrying a total of 37 passengers, bringing the combined total across the three-day period to 47 migrants intercepted in smuggling operations along the same stretch of border. Greece has built a wall along much of its land frontier with Turkey, but crossings continue. UN data shows that out of roughly 14,300 people who have arrived in Greece so far this year, about 3,000 entered through the land border rather than by sea. The majority of those who cross aim to transit Greece and reach wealthier EU countries further west. Most migrants arriving in Greece still come by sea, crossing from Libya or Turkey to Greek islands. But the northern land route through Evros remains an active corridor for smuggling networks moving people across the EU's external border. #Greece #Immigration #Evros