Five people per 10 sq ft: how the truck migrants met their end

August 31, 2015 12:58

The 71 people found dead in an abandoned refrigeration lorry in Austria had been crammed in, (five to a space of 10 sq ft), police said on Sunday, as initial forensic tests indicated they had suffocated.

A baby girl and three other children were among the dead in truck discovered on Thursday on a highway from the Hungarian border to Vienna, where it had been left 24 hours earlier.

The victims are thought to be refugees from Syria or possibly Afghanistan, part of an huge wave of migrants pushing through Europe that is sorely testing the European Union's ability to cope. Read more

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