Four Suspects Held After Austria Discovers 71 Dead Refugees
Forensic officers inspect a truck inside which were found a large number of dead migrants on a motorway near Neusiedl am See, Austria, on Aug. 27, 2015.
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Four suspected smugglers were arrested after Austrian authorities discovered the bodies of 71 refugees inside an abandoned truck near Vienna, laying bare the urgency of Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War II.
Eight women and four children -- one of them an infant girl -- were among the dead found in a refrigerator truck with a Hungarian license plate on Thursday 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of the Austrian capital, police said. Four men suspected of human trafficking were taken into custody in Hungary.