Dead and injured as car carrying illegal migrants in Hungary hits a tree and turns over

(12 Oct 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: FOOTAGE CONTAINS DEAD BODY ASSOCIATED PRESS Kiskunmajsa - 12 October 2023 NIGHT SHOTS 1. Various of emergency vehicles and destroyed car, emergency team at scene 2. Various of emergency team at scene, putting body on stretcher into ambulance and leaving 3. Various of damaged car 4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Jozsef Hangai, spokesperson for the Hungarian National Ambulance Service: ”My comrades treated a total of two seriously injured and four more lightly injured people. And two people unfortunately died at the scene, we were unable to help them. Following treatment at the scene, the injured were distributed to several hospitals.” 5. Damaged car 6. Various of emergency vehicles on scene STORYLINE: Two people were killed and six others injured in a car accident in Hungary early Thursday after a vehicle suspected of transporting illegal migrants hit a tree and overturned.  The accident occurred around 3 a.m. near Kiskunmajsa, in southern Hungary near the border with Serbia. Police said the driver of the vehicle, a Renault with French licence plates, sped away after police attempted to perform a traffic stop and lost control on a bend in the road. As it evaded police, the car swerved and hit a tree and then overturned, police said. Jozsef Hangai, a spokesperson for the Hungarian National Ambulance Service, said that two people in the vehicle died at the scene and six others were taken to local hospitals for treatment.  Police said initial information suggested the vehicle was driven by a human smuggler that was carrying illegal migrants.  Hungary has taken a hard stand against illegal immigration, and in 2015 erected a 320-kilometer (200-mile) border fence along its frontiers with Serbia and Croatia to fend off hundreds of thousands of migrants attempting to enter the European Union along the so-called Balkan route.  Still, Hungary’s neighbor to the north, Slovakia, began conducting traffic checks at its border last week amid what it says is a dramatic rise in migrants crossing into its territory from Hungary. Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland also reintroduced controls at their own borders with Slovakia last week to curb migrants coming in from the country. =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel 44(0)2074827482 Email: info@. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: