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Austrian police identify 71 bodies found in abandoned truck, and confirm three people have been arrested in Hungary. Natasha Howitt reports.
Dozens of decomposing bodies of migrants have been discovered inside a delivery truck abandoned on the side of the road in Austria on Thursday, said Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of the police in the eastern state of Burgenland.
Images show the presence of Bulgarian police at the scene where 18 migrants were found dead in an abandoned truck, near the village of Lokorsko, 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Bulgaria's capital Sofia. The vehicle "was illegally transporting around 40 migrants hidden under some wood", the interior ministry said. "Eighteen of them have died." It is believed to be one of the deadliest people smuggling incidents recorded in the country. The cause of the migrants' deaths has not been established. IMAGES
Eleven men are on trial over the horrific deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly two years ago, in one of the most disturbing cases marking Europe's migration crisis. IMAGES (COMPLETES EDIT N°1045122)
An American woman who was working as a nanny and studying German in Vienna, Austria was found lifeless in her pitch-black apartment on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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