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Baghdad will investigate claims by Minsk that were tortured and beaten by Polish soldiers at the ,Ìýan Iraqi official has toldÌý°®Âþµº's Arabic-language sister site.

Iraq's foreign ministry will form a crisis cell for the investigation after a Belarusian committeeÌýhanded Iraqi officials information on the killings of Iraqi migrants by Polish soldiers on the Poland-Belarus border,ÌýAl-Araby Al-Jadeed Wednesday, citing a Baghdad official.

The Belarusian committee found that at least 130 Iraqis were tortured or beaten by Polish border guards,ÌýAl-Araby Al-Jadeed said.

Iraq's foreign ministry throughÌýspokesperson Ahmed al-Sahhaf thatÌýit was "investigating the accuracy" of the reports.

The Poland-Belarus border became a flashpoint last year for thousands of refugees and migrants - mostly from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Iraqi Kurdistan - trying to cross into the European Union member state.

The EU accused Belarus ofÌýluring the migrants to the border as revenge for sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko's regime. Belarus has denied the claim and criticised the EU for not taking in the migrants.

Though Iraq has , some continue to try to cross the border.

Poland is still pushing refugees back across the border with Belarus, Human Rights Watch earlier this month,Ìýand it is constructing a wall along its border with Belarus to stop refugees and migrants from entering.

On the Belarusian side, people reported violence, inhuman and degrading treatment and other forms of coercion by Belarusian border guards.

Like other European countries, Poland has been accused of in its treatment of refugees from Europe versus elsewhere.

While Poland blocks the flow of Iraqi and other non-European refugees and migrants,Ìýit has welcomed millions of Ukrainians that have fled Russia's onslaught on their home country, which began in February.