Two dead in a van full of immigrants on the Austrian-Hungarian border

Two irregularities Immigrants were found dead today, Tuesday, at Austria inside a small truck stopped by police at the border with Hungary, while the driver fled on foot, according to police.

Coming from Hungary, the vehicle was stopped for inspection by military, who considered it suspicious, broadcasts AFP. Police found nearly thirty people trapped in a very small area – two of them dead.

Authorities offered water to 26 living migrants, who, according to preliminary survey data, are all men from Syria. The driver of the vehicle is still wanted.

“This heinous act clearly shows one thing: the death of one or more people is being deliberately accepted by traffickers,” said the conservative Austrian Interior Minister. Carl Nehamer.

It is noted that Austria, which is experiencing an influx of migrants on its eastern and southern borders, has intensified controls since last July. According to police, they have been arrested 250 traffickers since the beginning of the year.

Memories of the 2015 tragedy awoke

According to the French Agency, a similar tragic incident took place in the eastern part of the country, about six years ago.

On August 27, 2015, 71 irregular immigrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, including three children and a baby, were found dead from suffocation inside a refrigerated truck, where they had been hidden and abandoned by traffickers.

They were found in Austria, but their death had occurred while they were still in other side of borders.

Almost four years later, Hungarian courts convicted these traffickers Life imprisonment.

The shock that the public caused the incident had led to temporary opening of the border to the hundreds of thousands of people who wished to reach Western Europe at the beginning of the 2015-2016 migration wave.