Poland starts building metal wall to stop migrants crossing border from Belarus

Border guards and the military patrolled as excavators and cranes prepared the ground for the metal wall that Poland’s right-wing government says will serve the interests of all of the EU

The 18ft-high metal wall topped with barbed wire will run more than 115 miles along the land part of the border, which also includes the Bug River. Cameras and electronic alarm systems will be added. Picture: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Construction workers with heavy machinery have started work on Poland’s border on wall to stop migrants pushed across by Belarus in what the European Union calls a “hybrid attack”.

Reporters were allowed to see the work in the village of Tolcza, near the closed border crossing of Kuznica in eastern Poland.