Hungary could not have prevented deaths of 71 migrants in lorry - prosecutors


  • World
  • Thursday, 15 Jun 2017

FILE PHOTO - A member of a forensic team walks in front of a truck in which more than 70 bodies were found, at a customs building with refrigeration facilities in the village of Nickelsdorf, Austria, August 29, 2015. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Prosecutors said on Thursday there was nothing Hungarian authorities could have done to prevent the deaths of 71 migrants in a lorry found by an Austrian motorway at the height of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015.

The refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan - 59 men, eight women and four children - were crammed into the back of a small lorry by people smugglers and suffocated on the journey from Hungary.

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