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| we believe one of the perpetrators to be a Bulgarian citizen with a Lebanese background - the owner of the vehicle. |
Police said: 71 dead, in food truck & 3, 4 or 5 suspects arrested. Hungarian police say they have arrested four/five people over the discovery of the bodies of 71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, in a lorry in Austria. The victims included 59 men, eight women and four children who are thought to have been dead for about two days. The decomposing bodies were discovered by Austrian police on Thursday morning in the abandoned lorry, near the Hungarian border. Four Men to Face Charges Over Deaths of 71 Migrants Found in Truck in Austria. The men were arrested in Hungary on Friday after Austrian police discovered the dead. Police arrest fifth suspect after 71 migrants found dead in truck.
People in the town of Eisenstadt hold vigils for the 71 people who died, and some locals call for a change in immigration policy.Death lorry had no air vents and its doors were wired shut: Shocking details emerge of how 71 migrants - including three children and a baby. 71 migrants, thought to be Syrian, in an abandoned lorry in Austria. 59 men, 8 women & 4 children among 71 migrants found dead in Austria truck - police. People light candles in Austria after police on Thursday discovered the badly decomposing bodies of 71 migrants.
Four or five people have been arrested in Hungary after the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants were found in the back of an abandoned lorry in Austria. The bodies of 59 men, eight women and four children have reportedly been found in the lorry. The victims include a girl thought to be aged between one and two years old, and three boys aged between eight and 10, according to news agency Reuters. They are thought to have been dead for nearly two days.
Police have said the bodies appeared to be those of Syrian migrants who probably died from suffocation, the BBC reports. Local police have said that three of the people arrested are Bulgarian and one is Afghan. They are being detained in Hungary. Forensic teams worked throughout the night to examine the corpses at a customs building with refrigeration facilities, where the truck was towed to. The corpses were found in the back of the refrigerated food delivery truck, which had been parked on the hard shoulder of the A4 road, Austria's “Eastern Motorway”, near the town of Parndorf. An Austrian police motorway patrol officer had seen fluids seeping from its back door.
