Three people burned to death in Greece Monday when a truck crashed into cars waiting at a highway toll station, police said, with another seven people including young children rushed to hospital.
The accident happened on the Egnatia motorway near the northeastern city of Xanthi, a police spokesperson told AFP.
Two men and a woman from Albania were killed, while an Albanian woman managed to escape the burning vehicle and was hospitalised.
A second car with a family of four from Greece, including two children aged six and four, was also caught up in the accident.
They too were taken to hospital, as were the two Bulgarian men in the truck.
Police are still investigating the cause of the crash.
Greece had the EU’s third worst road fatality record last year, according to preliminary data, behind Romania and Bulgaria.
The death toll went up from 61 people per million in 2023 to 64.
Source: AFP
