He died of cold and exhaustion, A Yemeni immigrant who died was buried on the borders of Belarus and Poland

A modest funeral was held for a Yemeni immigrant who died of cold and exhaustion while trying to enter the European Union from Belarus. Mustafa Murshid al-Rimi was buried in the presence of his brother and the Yemeni ambassador to Poland. His grave was dug along with the graves of other victims of the recent migration crisis.

Mustafa Murshid al-Rimi was buried in the presence of his brother and the Yemeni ambassador to Poland (communication sites)

Under cloudy skies amid fields and birch bushes, men from the Muslim minority in the Polish town of Bohoniki on Sunday buried a 37-year-old Yemeni immigrant who died of cold and exhaustion while trying to enter the European Union from Belarus.

After a funeral prayer in an old mosque built of wood in this town about ten kilometers from the Polish-Belarus border, the men carried the coffin to the cemetery on a slope covered with pine trees.

Mustafa Murshid al-Rimi was buried in the presence of his brother and the Yemeni ambassador to Poland. His grave was dug along with the graves of other victims of the recent migration crisis.

Yemenis transmitted information on social media about Mustafa, who they said is 36 years old, a father of two children, and a corporate accounting graduate since 2006 in Yemen.

They explained that he worked at the National Bank of Saudi Arabia before he was suddenly dismissed.

Richard Mozdabayev, who hails from Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, from which he fled eight years ago, asserts that the funeral held for Mustafa is "an expression of our respect and solidarity with this man who died in terrible circumstances."

Mozdabayev, who lives in the large city of Bialystok, about fifty kilometers from Bohoniki, is accompanied by friends from Crimea and Chechnya who were also immigrants.

The number of Muslims in that Polish border region is about three hundred or a little more, most of them are Tatars who settled there in the fourteenth century. The small Muslim group has pledged to organize "dignified funerals" for those who die trying to enter the European Union.

"I fear that there will be another burial soon," says Maci Szczenovic, the leader of this Muslim minority in Bohoniki.

Since the beginning of the migrant crisis, the small Muslim community in Bohoniki has helped a number of people stranded in the border forests, and provided them with food, drink and clothing that might meet their needs.

Members of this small minority volunteered to help the troops sent by Poland to control the borders, especially by serving them hot food daily.

According to Polish media, at least 11 migrants have died since the migrant crisis began this summer. This week, Belarus began evacuating a camp in which thousands of men, women and children live, mostly from the Middle East.

However, the Polish border guards service continues to report new attempts to cross.

The West accuses Belarus of creating the crisis by bringing migrants to the borders of the European Union, in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on the Belarusian regime after it suppressed an opposition movement.

Once at the border, migrants find themselves stuck between Poland, which refuses to let them in, and Belarusian security forces, who prevent them from turning back.

And the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Saturday that it is working to return citizens stranded at the border, eight on the Belarusian side and nine on the Polish side.