Eight killed in two collisions on Hungarian road

Two collisions one after another on a major road in western Hungary has killed eight people, police said.

A truck caught fire after colliding with a construction vehicle near the city of Győr 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 second crash killed seven people and seriously injured two, police said.

Authorities closed one lane of the M1 highway toward Austria.

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