Migrants cricis :71, including 4 children, 8 women in  Austria

A truck full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday contains 71 bodies, including 4 children and 8 women the Austrian police said on Friday, announcing the final death toll.

The grisly discovery near the Slovakia and Hungary borders came as at least 30 more migrants drowned in the Mediterranean and European leaders again met to try to find ways to handle the tide of people seeking refuge in the European Union.

Austrian police said the refrigerated truck was found by an Austrian motorway patrol near the Hungarian border just before lunchtime on Thurs

A truck full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday contains 71 bodies, including 4 children and 8 women the Austrian police said on Friday, announcing the final death toll.

The grisly discovery near the Slovakia and Hungary borders came as at least 30 more migrants drowned in the Mediterranean and European leaders again met to try to find ways to handle the tide of people seeking refuge in the European Union.

Austrian police said the refrigerated truck was found by an Austrian motorway patrol near the Hungarian border just before lunchtime on Thursday, with fluids from the decomposing bodies seeping from its back door

When they opened it, there was a powerful stench of human decay and the bodies lay piled on top of each other, crammed into a small rectangular space in a sea of tangled limbs.

day, with fluids from the decomposing bodies seeping from its back door

When they opened it, there was a powerful stench of human decay and the bodies lay piled on top of each other, crammed into a small rectangular space in a sea of tangled limbs.