The Scotsman

Migrants in trunk as car drives off cliff

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Four people died during a police chase in northern Greece when an overcrowde­d smuggler’s car carrying eight migrants, including two in the trunk, plunged off a 90ft cliff.

Health officials said the other four migrants and the Pakistani driver were injured in the accident late Tuesday near the town of Kavala, east of Thessaloni­ki.

Kavala hospital director Anastassio­s Karassavog­lou said one man was in intensive care with multiple bone fractures. The other four were in relatively good condition. The 35-year-old driver faces manslaught­er and human traffickin­g charges.

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