Serbian border guards stopped a truck with Macedonian licence plates carrying two illegal migrants. The men from India and Afghanistan were hiding in cages that were loaded in the truck, along with heavy machine parts.

The truck made it to the Serbian – Hungarian border crossing Horgos. The destination for the goods, and presumably the migrants, was Belgium.

Macedonia is on the main Balkan route for migrants, which was used by more than a million people in 2015 and 2016, and continues to move tens of thousands of illegals every year.