According to police, the vehicle was carrying seven passengers and crashed around 70 kilometers south of the Hungarian capital Budapest. The reason for the accident was unclear, reported the German news agency dpa citing local police in the region of Kecskemét.

Five of the passengers sustained injuries in the crash. According to police, the vehicle was being driven by a Modovan citizen. The child’s age was not provided, but reports suggest it died at the scene of the crash.

A Hungarian news website, infostart.hu showed a picture of a small car overturned in a ditch near fields of maize, with two police officers standing by a person sitting on the ground whose face was blurred.

Police detained the driver

A local Hungarian news site, baon.hu said that police detained the driver. The road the vehicle was traveling on, the M5, tracks from the Serbian-Hungarian border towards the Hungarian capital Budapest. Many migrants on this route will have come up through Turkey and along the so-called Balkan route in the hope of making it to Western Europe.

The nationalities of the migrants in the van were not given, however, many who come through Turkey at the moment originate in South Asia and the Middle East.

According to the English-language website Daily News Hungary, the vehicle was a car with Romanian number plates. The car is reported to have "drifted off the road for unknown reasons" at about 6 am on August 1 and landed in a ditch.

Serbian police discover weapons and migrants during raid

On August 1, the Serbian police confirmed that they discovered a group of 200 migrants near the border with Hungary. The Serbian Interior Ministry also said it seized weapons and ammunitions from the people smugglers alleged to have been trying to move the migrants, reported the news agency Reuters.

The raid which discovered the migrants involved 800 police officers, reported Reuters, and took place near the Serbian city of Subotica, a known hub for migrants hoping to travel on towards Western Europe.

Ivica Ivkovic, head of the Interior Ministry’s police department, said that in addition to the weapons and ammunition, the police had also seized a number of handheld radios.

"Results are quite good. A considerable amount of ammunition and weapons were found –eight automatic rifles, one carbine, two pistols...and 13 radio devices," confirmed Ivkovic in a TV broadcast, reported Reuters.

Shootouts between various criminal groups operating the smuggling routes in this area are becoming more frequent, reported Reuters. Joint border patrols are already being conducted by Serbia, Hungary and Austria in this region.

With dpa and Reuters