1st LD: 4 killed, 3 injured in car crash amid smuggling operation near border in U.S. Texas

HOUSTON, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a car crash involving a migrant smuggling operation on Thursday near the U.S.-Mexico border in south-central U.S. state Texas, police said.

"The driver suspected of human smuggling evaded law enforcement and crashed into a commercial vehicle," the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

The incident happened in Encinal, about 40 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, media reports said.