VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian prosecutors want their Hungarian counterparts to take over the case of 71 dead migrants who were found abandoned in a lorry on an Austrian motorway in August, saying their work on the case has more or less been completed.
The discovery of the bodies, crowded into the lorry coming from Hungary, set off an international outcry over Europe's often chaotic and sometimes hostile response to the tide of refugees arriving by sea and land from war zones.
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