Authorities in Hungary report that eight people died in a series of connected highway accidents that occurred Friday morning on a major roadway west of the capital.
The deadly sequence began when a truck collided with a construction vehicle on the M1 highway near Gyor, located approximately 122 kilometers west of Budapest. This initial crash resulted in one fatality and created a traffic backup.
Shortly afterward, a minibus with nine occupants slammed into a truck that had stopped due to the traffic congestion from the first accident. Seven people in the minibus were killed and two others sustained injuries, according to police reports.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar confirmed through a Facebook statement that those who died were foreign nationals. “I express my sincere condolences to the families,” he said.
The prime minister did not identify the specific countries the victims were from, and law enforcement officials have not yet responded to media inquiries seeking additional details.
Police informed the news outlet 24.hu that all fatalities were male and that both the minibus and the truck from the initial crash displayed Moldovan license plates.
