{"id":548283,"date":"2026-06-04T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=548283"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:51:34","slug":"migrant-s-body-found-on-border-with-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/migrant-s-body-found-on-border-with-latvia","title":{"rendered":"Migrant&#8217;s Body Found on Border With Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The body of a man described as being of &#8220;Arab appearance&#8221; has been found on the Belarusian-Latvian border, Belarus&#8217; State Border Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gpkgovby\/9151\">reported<\/a>. The body was discovered on June 2 in Braslau District, about 50 meters from the border.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Border guards identified drag marks leading from the European border fence toward the location where the deceased was found. In addition, the concertina wire that had previously blocked an animal gate had been removed,&#8221;<\/i> the committee said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities stated that the body showed signs of beatings and the use of a stun gun. No documents or money were found on the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Committee is conducting an inquiry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_548240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-548240\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548240\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-30-710x400.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-548240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_548239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-548239\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548239\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-35-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-548239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_548237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-548237\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-548237\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_2026-06-04_15-12-43-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-548237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-548283-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_5815.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_5815.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_5815.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man described as being of &#8220;Arab appearance&#8221; has been found on the Belarusian-Latvian border, Belarus&#8217; State Border Committee reported. The body was discovered on June 2 in Braslau District, about 50 meters from the border. &#8220;Border guards identified drag marks leading from the European border fence toward the location where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":548282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2174d9eec62.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Migrant\u2019s Body Found on Border With Latvia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}