Police arrest suspect for transport of illegal migrants

LESKOVAC - Three individuals from Vranje and its vicinity have been arrested on suspicion that they transported illegal migrants who suffered a traffic accident on the section of the motorway from Vranje to Leskovac, the Serbian Ministry of Interior Affairs released on Sunday.

The suspects are charged with criminal acts of illegal crossing of the state border and human trafficking, as well as grave crimes against security of public traffic and failure to provide assistance to individuals injured in the traffic accident.

The suspects are charged with having organised transport and trafficking of foreign citizens in the night between February 24 and 25 in keeping with a previously reached agreement, in the awareness that the foreign citizens have crossed the Serbian administrative border by illegal routes, states the release.

During the transport of foreign migrants in a Fiat van, a traffic accident occurred on the section of the motorway from Vranje to Leskovac near the village of Donje Krajince, southern Serbia, as the vehicle careened off the track and hit a facility by the road.

The van carried 54 migrants and the driver. A total of 42 foreign citizens suffered light and serious injuries in the incident.

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