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Austria Finds Up to 50 Bodies Thought to Be of Migrants in Truck
2015-08-28
[NYTIMES] The partly decomposing bodies of as many as 50 people
...though possibly it's only twenty, or somewhere in between...
assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.

The precise toll was yet to be determined, said Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of the police in the eastern state of Burgenland, during a live news conference on Austria's public broadcaster.

He said the bodies, some of which had started to decompose, had been discovered when the truck was opened after the police noticed it parked off the highway that links Budapest and Vienna. He declined to give further details.

Mr. Doskozil said the Austrian police had contacted the authorities in neighboring Hungary, which has accelerated the building of a fence along the border with Serbia in an effort to block the flow of tens of thousands of migrants who have worked their way up the length of the Balkans in recent weeks.
It's all the rage these days. I just read that Estonia is building one on her border with Russia, though it seems to me that no fence would stop "refugees" in tanks.
Updated count from An Nahar at 4:45 a.am ET:
The bodies of more than 70 dead migrants have been recovered from an abandoned truck found on an Austrian motorway, more than the initial estimate of between 20 and 50, the Austrian government said Friday.

The number was confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse by interior ministry front man Alexander Marakovits. The lorry was found on Thursday morning on a motorway near the borders with Slovakia and Hungary.

No further details on the identities, ages or origin of the dead was available, but Austrian police in the eastern state of Burgenland were due to give a news conference at 11:00 am (0900 GMT).
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