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Austria searches freight trains in new frontline on illegal migration

Published Sun, Dec 18, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    Steinach am Brenner, Austria

    AUSTRIAN police have started searching freight trains travelling from Italy at night to tackle illegal migration and avert further deaths after two stowaways died earlier this month.

    A man and a woman from Eritrea who had hidden on a train bringing trucks from Italy were crushed to death in Austria's Tyrol province, likely having lost consciousness due to freezing winter temperatures.

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