Two people were killed and six were injured in southern Hungary on Thursday, near the border with Serbia, after a car carrying illegal migrants crashed into a tree and overturned, Hungarian police said, cited by Reuters and Agerpres.

The car, which was registered in France and driven by a trafficker, according to police, did not stop at the checkpoint, but accelerated before the accident, near the town of Kishkunmais. The police did not specify how many illegal migrants were in the car.

Official data indicate an increase in the number of illegal crossings of Hungary’s southern border with Serbia in recent months.

From Hungary, illegal migrants go to Slovakia or Austria. They are mainly young people from the Middle East and Afghanistan who arrived via the so-called Balkan route and manage to enter Hungary from Serbia despite a metal barrier erected by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after the 2015 migration crisis, which shook Europe.

Viktor Orbán’s government extended the state of emergency he imposed in 2016 over the migrant crisis for 7 years, for the last time on September 6. The state of emergency will remain in Hungary until at least March 2024.

Hungary returns migrants to Serbia, which is not part of the EU, but many still manage to cross the wall, including with the help of smugglers, who then take them north, mostly to the border with Slovakia.

On Wednesday, Slovakia’s current government approved a temporary extension of border controls with Hungary until November 3 to curb the rise in illegal migration.

Slovakia initially introduced these controls on October 5 for a ten-day period after its neighbors Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria also re-imposed border controls with Slovakia.