Afghan, Nepali migrants injured as van overturns in Serbia

Thirty Afghan and Nepali migrants were injured when a van transporting them overturned in southeastern Serbia, the RTS state-run television reported on Saturday.

Three migrants remained in a hospital while the others received medical care and were placed at a reception centre run by the country's commissariat for refugees, RTS said.

The migrants are men from Nepal and Afghanistan, the broadcaster reported citing the commissariat.

The accident occurred on Friday on a highway near the town Bela Palanka when the van, transporting nearly 50 migrants, slipped off the road.

Serbia lies along the so-called Balkans route used by migrants heading towards the European Union.

In 2023, nearly 100,000 migrants used the route, according to the bloc's border surveillance agency Frontex.