Six migrants were killed and three others, along with their driver, were injured in a traffic accident near Burgas, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast Thursday night.

Axar.az informs the Director of the General Directorate Border Police, Chief Commissioner Anton Zlatanov, said this in an interview for bTV on Friday morning.

The vehicle, a Skoda with Romanian licence plates driven by a Romanian national, was carrying a total of 10 people, which is twice the permissible capacity.

Zlatanov said that all 10 people on board were in violation of the law, as the migrants had entered Bulgaria illegally. At around 9:20 p.m. police officers noticed a car that was allegedly driving over the speed limits. When they tried to pull it over, the driver did not comply.

At this point, procedure 27 was activated, whereby all police and members of the gendarmerie coordinate their actions and carry out cordoning-off measures. In an attempt to evade spike strips deployed by the police, the driver veered off the road, and the car crashed, leading to six fatalities. The driver and the three surviving passengers received first aid at the scene.

According to preliminary data, the surviving migrants are from Afghanistan.