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Six migrants were killed and four others were injured after an accident during a police chase near the Black Sea city of Burgas, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) reported today.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told AFP that the car carrying the migrants fell into a lake.
The vehicle, with Romanian license plates, was carrying ten people when the driver refused to stop for a check and tried to evade arrest yesterday evening, November 6, border police chief Anton Zlatanov told BTV.
"Police tried to stop the car for the first time at 9:30 p.m., but the driver did not obey," a police spokesman was quoted as saying, adding that the first incident occurred 50 km south of Burgas.
Two more attempts to stop the vehicle followed, but on the third attempt, at the entrance to Burgas, the car went off course and ended up in a lake.
Six migrants died on the spot, while the Romanian driver of the car and three other migrants survived and received first aid. The survivors are believed to be from Afghanistan, BTA reported.
Since 2015, Balkan countries have become transit points for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Asia and Africa, who are fleeing their countries to escape wars and poverty and heading towards European Union member states.
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