50 bodies found in truck on Austria highway

August 28, 2015 10:23

The bodies of as many as 50 people 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, Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of police in the eastern state of Burgenland, said on Austria's public broadcaster.

The bodies, some of which had started to decompose, had been found when the truck was opened after the police noticed it parked off the highway that links Budapest and Vienna, he said.

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