Hungarian and Romanian police have stopped a truck driver who tried to smuggle 68 migrants into Hungary at the border crossing of Csanádpalota, the Csongrád-Csanád county police said on Thursday.
The Turkish truck approached the border from the Romanian side on Wednesday night, the police said.
The police detained a Hungarian driver on his way to Austria early on Thursday after they found that he was transporting 24 migrants without travelling documents in his truck, western Hungary’s local police reported. The passengers are believed to be Syrian and Afghan nationals, while one person said he was coming from Grande Comore island. […]Continue reading
Romanian authorities have charged the driver with people smuggling and the migrants with illegal border crossing, the police said.
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