"On the night of 30 to 31 December… border officers have found with the help of video surveillance systems two unidentified men, who were moving along the secure area. Soon, 24-year old French citizens were detained in the vicinity of the Belarusian-Lithuanian border," the press service said in a statement.
According to the State Border Committee, the two French citizens came to Lithuania for holidays and found themselves on Belarusian territory without realizing that they crossed the border.
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The Belarusian border officers informed Lithuanian counterparts of the accident in accordance with established procedure and handed over the two French nationals to them in the prescribed manner.