Police take suspected human traffickers into custody

Budapest, August 30 (MTI) – Hungarian police took into custody late Saturday the drivers of three vehicles suspected of human trafficking, the Budapest police headquarters said on Sunday.

The police took into custody a Lithuanian driving a vehicle with Lithuanian number plates carrying twelve Syrians in the country illegally.

The police later took into custody an Austrian driver in a vehicle with Austrian number plates carrying five Syrian passengers in the country illegally as well as a Polish driver in a vehicle with French number plates carrying seven Syrians in the country illegally.

The drivers, all stopped on the M1 motorway, had been paid to take their passengers to Germany illegally, the police said.

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