BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungarian police say they have detained a fifth man suspected of being involved in the deaths of 71 migrants found in a truck in neighbouring Austria.
A national police statement said the Bulgarian national was arrested on Saturday evening. Police said Sunday they will seek to have him held in custody on suspicion of human trafficking.
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On Saturday, a court in the central city of Kecskemet – from where prosecutors say the truck departed – placed four other suspects under preliminary arrest pending possible indictment.
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Those men, three Bulgarians and an Afghan, were arrested Thursday in southern Hungary. The truck with the dead migrants was found earlier that day parked along the Budapest-to-Vienna highway.
Austrian experts are performing autopsies on the victims: 59 men, eight women and four children.
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