Migrant Shot Trying To Cross Border

The Bulgarian Prime Minister left the EU summit he was attending in Brussels early after being told about migrant shooting.
The Bulgarian border guards have shot and killed a migrant trying to enter the country from Turkey. 

The man was travelling with a large number of people from Afghanistan when he was shot near the town of Sredets and died on his way to hospital, a Bulgarian interior ministry official said.

"Our border patrol of border guards and police in the area had stumbled on 50 offenders, who illegally entered the country," Georgi Kostov said on national radio.

He added: "They put up resistance during the arrest. 

"One of the officers fired warning shots and, in his words, one of the migrants was wounded by a ricochet and later died." 

The rest of the group, aged between 20 and 30, were all detained, Mr Kostov said. 

EU leaders met to agree a united approach to secure the group's external borders which would involve the extended use of the European border force, Frontex.