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Seven Dead as Migrant-Smuggling Vehicle Evades & Overturns During Police Check In High Speed Crash
The overcrowded vehicle appeared to be carrying migrants near Muehldorf, east of Munich, on the A94 road, which leads to the Austrian border
BBC 14 OCT 2023
Police attendants stand by an overturned vehicle on highway near Muehldorf, Germany. The overcrowded vehicle appeared to be carrying migrants
Seven people have been killed after a vehicle trying to evade a police check in southern Germany left a major road at high speed and crashed, authorities said.
The overcrowded vehicle appeared to be carrying migrants near Muehldorf, east of Munich, on the A94 road, which leads to the Austrian border. Police said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that initial investigations showed that it was "a suspected smuggler vehicle with more than 20 people on board".
They said prosecutors had opened a homicide investigation. All of those on board were at least slightly injured and some were seriously injured, German news agency DPA reported. They were taken to nearby hospitals.
It was not immediately clear where the people came from. Germany has seen large numbers of migrants arriving in recent months following Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine. The A94 is known as a smuggling route.
Bavaria's top security official, state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, said that the dead included a young child. The injured were taken to nearby hospitals. He said: "The inhuman behaviour of the smuggler, who was injured in the accident and wanted to evade being stopped by the federal police just to save his own skin, makes one speechless."
Herrmann, whose conservative party belongs to Germany's main opposition bloc, told DPA that Friday's incident shows "how important it is to further strengthen immediate border controls in order to stop smugglers already at the border." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview a few weeks ago that Berlin is seeking to curb illegal immigration with stricter border controls.
He said: "The number of refugees trying to get to Germany is too high at the moment." Last year, there were about 217,770 first-time asylum applications; in the first eight months of this year, there were about 204,460 such applications, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
But these numbers do not include the more than one million Ukrainians who have entered Germany since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began and who are not required to claim asylum.
The Interior Ministry said that nearly one in four of the new arrivals entering Germany without permission had been smuggled into the country.
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