Two migrants died and another ten were injured on Tuesday evening after the bus they were traveling in overturned in southwest Romania. Police are hunting for the driver.
Police said they went ambulances and emergency crews to the scene, which occurred in the village of Iecea Mică.
Timis police said all the victims were foreign nationals. Media reported there were Afghans.
A border police helicopter later flew over the area and police patrolled the area with heat scanners to identify the bus driver who fled after the accident.
It was unclear whether the bus was planning to leave Romania.
In a separate incident, Hungarian police stopped a Romanian truck that was transporting 103 migrants, police said.
The truck was intercepted in the town of Dunafoldvar, an old town on the Danive south of Budapest, the MTI news agency reported.
Hungarian police are investigating the driver, a Moldovan national, on suspicion of people trafficking.
The migrants didn’t have valid travel documents with them. They will be questioned and then sent back to the border, the news agency said.
Undocumented migrants fleeing Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are increasingly choosing Romania as a stepping stone to Western Europe after Hungary and Croatia beefed up border patrols.
Romanian Border Police say 8,758 migrants without papers attempted to enter Romania in the first six months of 2021. That is 200% more than in the same period of 2020.
Romania is new route for Afghan migrants headed to Western Europe-report
