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Police stand in fron of a truck parked on the shoulder of the highway A4 near Parndorf south of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Aug 27, 2015. AP
Police stand in front of a truck parked on the shoulder of the highway A4 near Parndorf south of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Aug 27, 2015. (AP)

More than 70 dead in Austrian migrant truck tragedy

The number was confirmed by interior ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits

Al Arabiya News
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The bodies of more than 70 dead migrants have been recovered from an abandoned truck found on an Austrian motorway, more than the initial estimate of between 20 and 50, the Austrian government said Friday, according to Agence France Presse.