Norway will send 5,500 migrants who used loophole to cycle across the border back

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  • Immigration minister orders migrants to cross back over to Russia
  • Around 5,500 migrants cycled over the border from Russia last year
  • Norway has agreed to put on a bus service due to freezing temperatures

  • Norway's immigration minister has announced that refugees who exploited a legal loophole to enter the country on bikes will have to return to Russia. As many as 5,500 asylum seekers made the perilous Arctic crossing using cheap bikes to travel through the Storskog crossing last year. Norway has agreed to lay on a bus service back to Russia following concerns over the risks for the migrants walking and cycling back in the winter temperatures.

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    Refugees from as far as Afghanistan and Iraq have been travelling to Norway in hope of starting a new life

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    Bicycles became the preferred mode of transport of migrants seeking to cross into Norway, because Russian authorities do not let people cross the border on foot
 
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