A truck, in which up to 50 migrants were found dead on a motorway near Parndorf, Austria August 27, 2015, is towed away. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
VIENNA/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Austrian authorities toughened controls along the country's eastern borders on Monday, stopping hundreds of refugees and arresting five traffickers in a clampdown that followed last week's gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck.
At a news conference in Vienna, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and one of her top deputies rejected suggestions that the border checks, which triggered a 25-km (15-mile) queue of vehicles stretching into Hungary, constituted a violation of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone.
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