Migrants are entering the EU through a secret route via Lithuania

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The route passes through Lithuania - far to the north of the well-trodden migrant paths across the Mediterranean and through the Balkans.

Border guards said criminal organisations are smuggling people from Belarus, which is not in the European Union, into Lithuania, which is a member.

Renatas Pozela of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service revealed: “The transit route through Lithuania has been used for many years.