'Up to 50 migrants' found dead in Austria as Vienna holds summit on refugee crisis

Austrian police have discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 - and possibly up to 50 – migrants piled in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main motorway from Budapest to Vienna.

'Up to 50 migrants' found dead in Austria as Vienna holds summit on refugee crisis

Austrian police have discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 - and possibly up to 50 – migrants piled in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main motorway from Budapest to Vienna.

The shocking finding came as Austria hosted a summit in Vienna on Europe’s refugee crisis for Western Balkan nations, which have been overwhelmed this year by the tens of thousands of migrants trying to get into Europe via their territory.

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