BERLIN (AP) — A car apparently full of migrants left a freeway in southern Germany at excessive velocity on Friday and crashed as the motive force tried to evade a police test, killing seven individuals and injuring 16, authorities mentioned.
The accident occurred close to Ampfing, east of Munich on the A94 freeway, which ends up in the Austrian border. The van left the street and overturned.
Police described the van, which had 23 individuals on board, as “a suspected smuggler car.” They mentioned prosecutors had opened a murder investigation.
Bavaria’s high safety official, state Inside Minister Joachim Herrmann, mentioned that the lifeless included a younger baby. The injured had been taken to close by hospitals.
The Austrian-registered van was designed to hold 9 individuals, and it wouldn’t have been doable for most of the individuals on board to make use of seat belts, German information company dpa reported. Police mentioned the car was carrying Syrians and Turks, whereas the motive force was a stateless man resident in Austria.
“The inhuman conduct of the smuggler, who was injured within the accident and wished to evade being stopped by the federal police simply to avoid wasting his personal pores and skin, makes one speechless,” Herrmann mentioned.
Germany has seen massive numbers of migrants arriving in latest months. The A94 is called a smuggling route and the location of the accident is about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the border with Austria, by means of which many migrants transit en path to Germany.
Herrmann, whose conservative occasion belongs to Germany’s most important opposition bloc, advised dpa that Friday’s incident reveals “how vital it’s to additional strengthen speedy border controls as a way to cease smugglers already on the border.”
