Six migrants died, while three others and their driver were injured in a vehicle crash near the Black Sea city of Burgas, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday. The incident occurred a short time before midnight Thursday as police tried to stop a van with Romanian registration plates carrying nine migrants who had entered the country illegally, border police chief Anton Zlatanov told reporters.
He said the driver repeatedly refused to stop at the signals given and, eventually, attempted to evade spike strips set by the police. The van crashed, leading to the six fatalities. The Romanian driver and the three surviving migrants received first aid at the scene. Preliminary data suggested that the migrants were from Afghanistan.
