Parndorf

A court in Hungary imprisoned three Bulgarians and one Afghan for life over the deaths of 71 refugees who perished in a lorry in August 2015. In the so-called Parndorf death van case, which made waves internationally, the migrants suffocated in a refrigerator truck while trying to get from Hungary to Germany.

Bulgarian was convicted in Hungary of four years and eight months in prison for human trafficking in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants in the trunk of a truck in August 2015, Hungarian MIT agency reports.
 
Illegal migrants, including eight women and four children, suffocated in the truck and were found dead on a motorway in Austria near Parndorf.

Bulgaria's prosecuting authorities said on Friday they have brought criminal charges against three Bulgarian citizens detained over the death of 71 migrants, who were found suffocated in the back of an abandoned refrigeration truck in Austria.

Austrian and Hungarian police have launched a joint investigation into the death of 71 migrants, including eight women and four children, in a refrigeration truck in Austria.

An Austrian police official said at a news conference in the town of Eisenstadt that one of the people arrested in Hungary as driver of the truck is a Bulgarian national.

Hungarian police have arrested the driver of a truck found on an Austrian motorway packed with the decomposing bodies of 71 people, including at least four children.
The man was identified as a Romanian national.

The ?horrible? Aug. 27 discovery of between 20 and 50 dead migrants inside a truck in Austria is a warning to Europe to tackle its migrant crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, attending the Western Balkan summit in Vienna, on Thursday said she was "shaken" by the news that the bodies of at least 20 dead migrants - and possibly as many as 40 or 50 - had been found in an abandoned lorry in eastern Austria.

The remains were discovered on Thursday morning on a motorway between Neusiedl and Parndorf.