Human smuggler blew himself up in Hungary

A man attempted to smuggle several immigrants to Austria through Hungary when the police caught up to him. While the police were busy trying to catch the smuggler, the others snuck away.

A human smuggler was chased by police cars and finally caught on main road 85 in the Vitnyéd area, on Monday, according to enyugat.hu. There were multiple witnesses at the scene, who claimed the smuggler got out of the car with a gun and a grenade in hand and made a run for the nearby forest.

Three policemen chased after the man and asked him multiple times to drop his weapons, eventually giving him a warning shot in the air. The man, however, instead of surrendering, turned his weapon on himself and fired, which was followed by the explosion of the hand grenade.

“We passed right there when a shot rang out, followed by a loud explosion. Then three policemen came out of the front of the forest in bulletproof vests. Then we noticed the body lying in the grass in the orange vest. It was pretty shocking. Why didn’t the police close the road?” A witness wrote to enyugat.hu. A massive traffic jam and line of vehicles piled up at the scene reportedly.