THESSALONIKI, Greece (SONNA) \u2014 Four migrants and a suspected trafficker, all from Syria, died Saturday and six were others injured when their car collided head-on with another as it sped the wrong way on a major highway in Greece near the Turkish border, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver of the other car, a 46-year-old Greek man, also died in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n
The car, with the driver and other 10 passengers, some of them stowed in the trunk, was driving along an older road, away from the border, when it came upon a police checking point, near the city of Alexandroupolis, on Saturday morning. Signaled to stop, it rammed the patrol car that stood in its way and sped away instead.<\/p>\n
Police say they followed at a distance.<\/p>\n
The suspected trafficker entered the Egnatia Highway, northern Greece\u2019s major east-west highway, when it collided head-on with the other car. Police said the drivers, both men, died instantly, as well as a man in the car carrying the migrants and a girl, who was sitting in the lap of the man in the passenger seat. Two more died in a hospital; the extent of the other six migrants\u2019 injuries was not known.<\/p>\n
Police said firefighters who rushed to the scene had a hard time extricating the people from the cars, which had sustained considerable damage.<\/p>\n
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