Two dead in truck crowded with migrants, Austrian police open manhunt for driver abroad

Two dead in truck crowded with migrants, Austrian police open manhunt for driver abroad

The alleged smuggler transferred a total of 28 people from Hungary to Austria. The bus was stopped just across the border, because the officers found the vehicle suspicious. When the officers opened the truck, they saw the refugees crammed into a very small space. Most of them will be men from Syria.

The driver immediately fled. according to Cronin newspaper The man may be armed.
“We have deployed all available resources, including officers, a helicopter, drones and dogs,” said police spokesman Helmut Marban. Against ORF TV channel. “Because we are near the border with Hungary, Hungarian agents are also involved in the research.”

The two dead were between 25 and 30 years old, according to a police spokesperson, and may have been in poor physical condition before boarding the packed bus. “I can’t say yet what the real cause of death was. An autopsy should show that.”

In August 2015, a truck carrying 71 suffocating refugees, including three children and an infant, was found in the same area. They also entered the country via Hungary.

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