(AP) Police in North Macedonia said Sunday they have found 80 migrants during a routine check in the central part of the country and arrested a truck driver for suspected migrant smuggling.
Police said in a statement that 79 Pakistanis and an Eritrean were found Saturday in the truck about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the capital, Skopje.
The truck driver, a 20-year-old North Macedonian national identified only by his initials A.F., was arrested as he tried to flee. He faces up to five years in jail if convicted.
The migrants were transferred to the migrant shelter in the southern border town of Gevgelija, pending deportation to Greece.
