Death Toll in Austrian Migrant Truck Climbs to 70

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...

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