Memorial service was held on Mondayin Austria at the Historical Cathedral “Stevans Dom” for 71 Syrian refugees who died strangled in a trucks that was found parked on the highway in the province of Burgenland, near the border with Hungary.
The Austrian police announced that they arrested the people involved in the incident of the truck and they will be brought to trial; note that the involved smuggling network includes Hungarians and Bulgarians.
The police have confirmed that most of the 71 refugees who died in the truck are Syrian refugees; (59) men, (8) Women, and (4) children, including a 1-year-girl.
In the meantime, on Saturday August 30,Austrian police found 26 migrants, including refugees from Syria in a miserable condition inside a truck in the small town of “St. Peter Am Hart” near the border with Germany, where they were greatly expected to die strangled, but the police reached them in the right time.
It is noteworthy that the Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, his vice Minister of Economy Rnhold Maitliner, president of the parliament, Doris Boris, the Ministers of State, a crowd of refugees, and Austrian people participated in the memorial service.