The border agency warned that if the migrants were not taken away by Sunday, November 21, Poland would suspend all cargo-train traffic going through Kuźnica, public broadcaster Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported.
Border Guard's chief, Tomasz Praga, said that "as long as multiple groups of migrants, who are hostile towards Polish border personnel, remain near the crossing, many unexpected and dangerous situations may develop, including a railway disaster."
The request was authorised by Poland's Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński and shared on Twitter.
It comes after violent scenes in Kuźnica on Tuesday when large groups of migrants, amassed on the Belarusian side of the border, pelted Polish forces with rocks and stun grenades, according to officials.
Border tensions
Meanwhile, the main makeshift migrant camp near Kuźnica has been cleared by Belarus, but migrants tried to breach the Polish border in other places overnight, the country's police chief told Polish Radio on Friday.
Poland's Border Guard said on Friday it had recorded 255 illegal attempts to cross from Belarus over the past 24 hours. Since the start of the year, almost 34,000 such attempts have been recorded, including 5,500 this month alone, the agency's data showed.
Stanisław Żaryn, the spokesman for Poland's security services, told Polish Radio on Friday that both the migrants and the Belarusian officials escorting them were becoming increasingly aggressive toward Polish border forces.
Stanisław Żaryn. Photo: Polish Radio
Two latest large-scale attempts to cross into Poland happened late on Thursday, the Border Guard reported.
First, some 500 migrants tried to force their way through near the village of Dubicze Cerkiewne.
"These people were aggressive, throwing stones and tree branches," the agency's spokeswoman, Anna Michalska, told reporters.
After Polish forces repelled the attack, "Belarusian trucks took some of the migrants away," while others "could still be encamped" in the nearby woods, she said.
Then, at around 10 p.m. on Thursday, some 50 immigrants broke into Polish territory near the village of Mielniki, the Border Guard reported.
But "this group was detained and turned back, with the exception of an Iraqi family, a man, his pregnant wife and three children, who received first aid at our premises," Michalska said.
She added that the Iraqi family would be taken to a guarded facility where they could apply for international protection.
Anna Michalska, spokeswoman for the Polish Border Guard. Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik
Migrant crisis
The months-long migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has escalated in recent days, with Poland, the European Union and its member states, as well as NATO and the United States accusing Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of orchestrating the standoff in retaliation for Western sanctions against his regime.
Lukashenko has denied luring vulnerable people, including Kurds from the Middle East, with the false promise of easy access to the EU and sending them across the bloc's border.
Polish lawmakers on Wednesday backed a government plan to strengthen the country's borders amid the migrant crisis on its frontier with Belarus.
Prosecutors this week opened an investigation into an attack on Polish border guards, police officers and soldiers staged from across the border with Belarus by rock-throwing assailants, Poland's police chief told reporters.
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Source: IAR, PAP