Shocking: shooting at the Hungarian-Austrian border

As Helló Magyar wrote, there was a shooting yesterday afternoon at the Harka crossing point on the Hungarian-Austrian border. The police wanted to check a van, but the driver tried to hit the patrol officer to avoid being checked, police.hu reported.

Early Thursday afternoon, border control officers spotted a vehicle with Lithuanian licence plates. Due to the suspicious behaviour of the driver and the passengers, officers suspected that they might be members of a human trafficking gang, Helló Magyar wrote.

They informed their colleagues on the Hungarian side, alerting them to be more vigilant. The result of this was that soon afterwards, they spotted the van they wanted to check.

The driver did not stop

One of the officers, as usual, stepped out onto the road and ordered the driver of the van to stop. However, the driver, increasing his speed, steered the vehicle towards the officer and tried to run him over.

Fortunately, he was able to jump out of the way in time. In the meantime, his partner, noticing the incident, drew his service weapon and fired several shots at the van. But the vehicle did not stop, and it drove across the border.