Friday, August 28, 2015

71 migrants perish in Austria truck tragedy

Austrian police on Friday raised the number of migrants found dead and decomposing in an abandoned truck on a motorway to 71.

Meanwhile, Libyan rescue workers recovered 76 bodies from yet another capsized boat crammed with desperate people trying to make it to Europe.

In a particularly horrifying tragedy in Europe's unrelenting migrant crisis, Austrian authorities said the bodies found in the truck were likely Syrians and included a toddler and three young boys .... http://news.yahoo.com