EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA BODIES Austrian investigators begin removing corpses from migrant lorry
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142352
EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA BODIES Austrian investigators begin removing corpses from migrant lorry
- Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/AUSTRIA BODIES Austrian investigators begin removing corpses from migrant lorry
- Date: 27th August 2015
- Summary: NICKELSDORF, AUSTRIA (AUGUST 27, 2015) (REUTERS) SHOT OF FEET OF FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS INSIDE A LOADING BAY CONTROLLED BY THE AUSTRIAN BORDER CONTROL TROLLEY WITH BODY BAG BEING WHEELED PAST INVESTIGATORS RED TRUCK ABANDONED REFRIGERATED LORRY WHERE CORPSES WERE FOUND POLICE CARS PARKED SIGN "POLIZEI" POLICE SITTING AROUND POLICE VANS PARKED TROLLEY BEING WHEELED OUT WHITE ABANDONED REFRIGERATED LORRY WHERE CORPSES WERE FOUND FEET OF FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS INSIDE LOADING BAY WIDE SHOT OF SECURITY OUTSIDE LOADING BAY
- Embargoed: 11th September 2015 13:00
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- Location: Austria
- Country: Austria
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVAF4O6WR90NK3B7FWBI1YWPPN9E
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- Story Text: Austrian investigators began on Thursday (August 27) to remove corpses of as many as 50 refugees from an abandoned refrigerated lorry found in an Austrian motorway near the Hungarian border.
There was tight security inside a compound in Nickelsdorf controlled by the Austrian border police where the lorry was towed from the motorway.
Inside the compound, forensic investigators in white suits and rubber boots were seen wheeling trolleys.
One had a white body bag on top of it.
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.
Police said it could take until Friday (August 29) to count the exact number of victims, which they thought would be more than 20 and could be as many as 50. They suspected those responsible were already out of the country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a summit on the West Balkans in Vienna that leaders were shaken by the "appalling news."
Even before the latest incidents, the International Organisation for Migration estimated 2,373 people had died so far this year while trying to reach Europe by sea, and 3,573 in the past 12 months.
Hundreds of thousands, many fleeing war in countries such as Syria and Libya, have made it into the European Union. Germany alone expects 800,000 asylum-seekers this year; Hungary is building a barbed wire fence along its border with Serbia.
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. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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