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THESSALONIKI, Greece — 4 migrants and a suspected trafficker, all from Syria, died Saturday and 6 had been others injured when their automobile collided head-on with one other because it sped the fallacious manner on a significant freeway in Greece close to the Turkish border, police mentioned.
The motive force of the opposite automobile, a 46-year-old Greek man, additionally died within the collision, police mentioned.
The automobile, with the driving force and different 10 passengers, a few of them stowed within the trunk, was driving alongside an older highway, away from the border, when it came across a police checking level, close to town of Alexandroupolis, on Saturday morning. Signaled to cease, it rammed the patrol automobile that stood in its manner and sped away as a substitute.
Police say they adopted at a distance.
The suspected trafficker entered the Egnatia Freeway, northern Greece’s main east-west freeway, when it collided head-on with the opposite automobile. Police mentioned the drivers, each males, died immediately, in addition to a person within the automobile carrying the migrants and a woman, who was sitting within the lap of the person within the passenger seat. Two extra died in a hospital; the extent of the opposite six migrants’ accidents was not recognized.
Police mentioned firefighters who rushed to the scene had a tough time extricating the folks from the vehicles, which had sustained appreciable injury.
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