BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian police said on Sunday they had arrested a fifth suspect, a Bulgarian citizen, in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants whose bodies were found in an abandoned refrigeration lorry on a highway in Austria last week.
An unprecedented number of people from the Middle East and Africa are undertaking perilous journeys to reach Europe by land and sea. Hundreds have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.
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