Migrant death toll climbs in Europe - KXLY Spokane
The discovery of dead migrants in the back of a truck in Austria, just a day after the Italian coast guard said 54 people lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean, has highlighted once again the scale of the migration crisis gripping... An Austrian Interior Ministry statement said it appeared that the "many bodies" found in the truck, whose number has not yet been confirmed, are refugees. When police opened the back of it, they found the bodies, Alexander Marakovits said. The truck was left in an emergency stopping zone in the Neusiedl district of Burgenland, the Interior Ministry said. "This horrible crime shows that we must get even tougher in the battle against people smuggling," Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said at a news conference. The Italian coast guard earlier said that 54 migrants were found dead on boats in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. Another 3,000 men, women and children were rescued in multiple operations off the Libyan coast Wednesday, the coast guard said. A Swedish coast guard vessel, operating on behalf of the European Union border agency, found 51 of the migrants who lost their lives in the hull of a large fishing boat and saved 439. Source: www.kxly.com
