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On Trakia motorway: 30 migrants abandoned in a van, 8 in a coma

30 migrants were found in a van this morning, abandoned on Trakia motorway in the direction of Sofia. Eight of them were in a coma after being dehydrated and deprived of fresh air.

All 30 are male, aged 15-30 and without identity documents. Earlier today another 8 migrants, who say they are Syrian, were injured after the car they were being transported in hit a tree between the villages of Chelnik and Pobeda in the vicinity of Yambol. 



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