The Austrian government says the number of dead found in a truck trailer full of refugees on an Austrian highway is higher than first estimated, with 70 or more victims now believed to have suffocated during their journey.
Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits on Friday told reporters that at least 70 people were found lifeless inside the trailer, which was on a highway near the Austrian borders with Hungary and Slovakia.
Thursday’s discovery came as western Balkan leaders met in Vienna to discuss ways to stem Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was among leaders …read more
Source: Voice of America
