Seven dead in the accident of a car fleeing a police check

Seven dead in the accident of a car fleeing a police check

Seven people were killed and several others injured overnight from Thursday to Friday in Bavaria, Germany, during the accident of a minibus suspected of transporting migrants and which wanted to flee a road check, according to local police.

The minibus, a Mercedes Vito carrying more than 20 people and registered in Austria, wanted to escape a check on the highway about fifty kilometers from the border between Austria and Germany, while it was heading towards Munich, the Bavarian capital.

Asked by AFP to know if it was indeed a transport of migrants, a police spokesperson indicated that checks on the identities of the occupants were “still in progress”.

Seven people died and the other occupants, some seriously injured, were transported to nearby hospitals. An investigation was entrusted to the judicial police, the press release continued.

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