Afghan migrant 'shot dead in Bulgaria'



An Afghan migrant was shot dead while entering Bulgaria from Turkey, Bulgarian media say.
The man was shot near the town of Sredets in the south-east of Bulgaria, Agence France-Presse and Bulgarian media reported.
The public BNR radio station said (in Bulgarian) that the man was one of 48 who had entered from Turkey.
The interior ministry is expected to hold a briefing on the shooting early on Friday.
Several Bulgarian news outlets said the man was shot by border guards and died on the way to hospital.
Georgi Kostov, the interior ministry's chief secretary, told BNR the man was probably killed by the ricochet of a bullet fired as a warning to the migrants.
Bulgaria's state news agency BTA said that, on hearing the news, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov left an EU summit in Brussels, where the migrant crisis was being discussed.


Afghan migrant 'shot dead in Bulgaria' - BBC News