Austria Finds Up to 50 Bodies Thought to Be of Migrants in Truck

New York Times ^ | August 27, 2015 | By Alison Smale

[Brad from Tennessee]

VIENNA — The partly decomposing bodies of as many as 50 people assumed to be migrants being smuggled across Europe were found in a truck abandoned on a highway east of Vienna on Thursday, the police said.

The precise toll was yet to be determined, said Hans-Peter Doskozil, director of the police in the eastern state of Burgenland, during a live news conference on Austria’s public broadcaster.

He said the bodies, some of which had started to decompose, had been discovered when the truck was opened after the police noticed it parked off the highway that links Budapest and Vienna. He declined to give further details.

Mr. Doskozil said the Austrian police had contacted the authorities in neighboring Hungary, which has accelerated the building of a fence along the border with Serbia in an effort to block the flow of tens of thousands of migrants who have worked their way up the length of the Balkans in recent weeks. . .

[Brad from Tennessee]

[The border fence has threatened to complicate and even cut off what has become an increasingly accessible route for the migrants, many of whom are fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.]

I guess the Hungarians are ignoring the opinon of U.S. Democrats that "Fences are downright un-neighborly."

[gaijin]

Progress.

[Mr. K]

If there is a fence and they know they cannot get out, maybe they will take a stand against those that would attack them

[BeadCounter]

It is interesting, we have had this same exact thing happen here.

[Farmer Dean]

Or maybe they don’t have the firepower or numbers to mount an effective defence and will get cut to pieces.

[Moltke]

Poor guy who opened that truck...

[rktman]

I guess the EU thing is working as planned. Open borders and all. I kinda liked having to get the old passport stamped as you entered each former independent country.

[batterycommander]

Hmmmmm. Sounds familiar. Zyklon B????

[DesertRhino]

Austrians,,,, a death truck. They’ve done that before back in the 1940s too.

[batterycommander]

I smell the hand of Frau Merkel in this discovery. Those Greek migrants are a pest, aren’t they?

[elpadre]

It seems to me this is not a migratory movement but a full fledge invasion!

[Mastador1]

In recent interviews, humanitarian aid workers and the migrants themselves said the fence would not stop the migrants but would force them to find other ways to make it to wealthy European Union countries farther north,

Actually the fence will stop the migrants .........from going through Hungary, so success for Hungary.

[DesertRhino]

Why is she bringing in so many foreign workers too? That’s an old nazi trick too.

[DickBrannigan]

We have a lot of old 53’ containers around, don’t we? Just thinking...

[batterycommander]

I think she wants to build up the Wehrmacht with Isis troops. They use the same tactics as the old SS in killing Jews.

[To Hell With Poverty]

I know I should pray for anyone who dies this way, but I'm really praying these weren't fleeing Christians. We know after all that they aren't able to come here. :(

[SaraJohnson]

We have “migrants” dying and even being put into work and sex slavery in Texas. That is the main reason I despise this illegal immigration business. It’s illegal in deeper ways than people imagine for many. It is corrupting to anyone who touches it.

[coop71]

That’s horrible.