EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA-MORNING More than 70 bodies found in Austrian refugee lorry - gov't.

Record ID: 142194

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA-MORNING More than 70 bodies found in Austrian refugee lorry - gov't.
  • Date: 28th August 2015
  • Summary: NICKELSDORF, AUSTRIA (AUGUST 28, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LORRY SURROUNDED BY FENCING AND TOWELS VARIOUS OF PILE OF PROTECTIVE OVERALLS AND BOOTS NEARBY LORRY POLICE VAN NEARBY LORRY
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Austria
  • Country: Austria
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA2XUJ9NA3DQGR9M3YDHKTPB1CJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Investigators have found more than 70 bodies in a lorry full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday (August 27), the interior ministry said on Friday (August 28).
    Austrian police had originally put the toll at up to 50 and are due to announce the exact number within hours. The lorry had come to Austria from Hungary.
    The abandoned refrigerated lorry was found by an Austrian motorway patrol near the Hungarian border, with fluids from the decomposing bodies seeping from its back door.
    Investigations were launched in Austria and Hungary after the bodies in the lorry were discovered. The truck had Hungarian number plates, a Hungarian official said.
    Helmut Marban, press officer for Burgenland police, said a highway patrol had spotted the lorry and at first thought it was damaged or had been in an accident.
    Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said a Romanian citizen had registered the number plate in the eastern Hungarian town of Kecskemet.
    The truck was towed to the Austrian village of Nickelsdorf, close to the Hungarian border, where workers clad in white protective suits and yellow boots could be seen wheeling body bags into a building.
    Police said forensic experts would work through the night before the bodies would be transported to Vienna on Friday for further examination and to help establish their identities and cause of death.
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