(ANSA) - VIENNA, 19 OCT - The now lifeless bodies of two migrants were discovered when Austrian soldiers searched a minibus on the border between Austria and Hungary. There were about thirty migrants on board, while the driver of the vehicle managed to escape. The police reported it to the AFP.
The suspect vehicle came from Hungary and soldiers found about thirty migrants crammed inside, two of whom died. All survivors were men, most from Syria, according to the Austrian news agency Apa.
The bus driver is wanted.
The find brought to mind a misfortune that occurred in August 2015, when 71 migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, including three children and a newborn, were suffocated in the back of an airtight van where they had been hidden by human traffickers.
Almost four years later, the Hungarian courts sentenced the traffickers to life in prison.
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