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Fri 09 Sep 2007Chechen girls die entering PolandThree Chechen girls, one a six-year-old, died as they tried to cross into Poland illegally with their mother through the mountains at the border with Ukraine, Polish border guards said today.Guards found the exhausted woman, carrying a two-year-old girl, 20 metres from the border late on Thursday and she told them where to find the bodies of her other daughters.