Greek police said 11 passengers were burned on a minibus suspected of carrying illegal immigrants after colliding with a truck in the north of the country on Saturday.
The bus was heading to the city of Kavala on the northeast coast when the accident occurred, and it was completely burned, but the driver escaped death.
Firefighters retrieved 11 bodies from the bus, which was apparently transporting migrants to the Thessaloniki in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.
Greek police said in a statement that the bus was used in the past to transport illegal immigrants and that its driver did not comply on Saturday with warnings from police officers who wanted to search them.
In June, a minibus used by smugglers carrying 16 people, mostly from Syria and Iran, was injured in an accident near Kavala, killing six people, including three children.
More than 12,700 refugees and migrants have moved north-east Greece since the beginning of the year, according to data collected by UNHCR, twice the number recorded in 2017.
At least 40 people were killed in the region in 2018, most of them drowning in the Evros river.
