File photo of the Danube Bridge by dariknews.bg
Three Bulgarians, two men and one woman, have been arrested by border police at the so called Danube Bridge between Bulgaria and Romania for trying to help two Afghan children sneak through the border.
The three Bulgarians were busted in a car driven by one of the men, a 45-year-old from the northeastern town of Strazhitsa.
It turned out that the 34-year-old woman from the southwestern town of Simitly pretended that the children, a boy and a girl aged 12 and 8 respectively, were her own. She showed her real children's passports, but the police became suspicious.
The woman later admitted that she and the two men had taken the boy and the girl from Greece the previous day, promising their Belgium-based father to transport them to him in exchange of EUR 720.
The police are still investigating the case.