Two illegal migrants from Iran were killed and eight others were injured in a traffic accident at dawn Tuesday on the Egnatia Highway near Kavala. Two undocumented migrants from Iran were killed and eight others were injured in a traffic accident at dawn on Tuesday on the Egnatia motorway near Kavala. According to local police, they received information of an operation by two migrant smugglers to convey nine illegal migrants by jeep from Komotini to Kavala and, lacking time to launch a coordinated operation, they set up two road blocks on Egnatia motorway on the border of the Kavala administrative region. The jeep managed to evade the first roadblock, at the Aspri Ammo turnoff, and sped away, but overturned further down the highway. 
(11.10.2011) ATHENS NEWS
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