Eight killed in two collisions on Hungarian road

A truck caught fire after colliding with a construction vehicle near the city of Gyor at around 4.30am (3.30am BST), killing one person and snarling traffic, police said. About half an hour later, a minibus with Moldovan licence plates slammed into a truck that stopped on the highway following the first accident.

The collisions took place on the M1 route (Csaba Krizsan/MTI via AP)

The second crash killed seven people and seriously injured two, police said.

Authorities closed one lane of the M1 highway toward Austria.

Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar expressed condolences to the families of the victims.