Austrian police find migrants in ‘horror box’ under truck

Euronews says Austrian police say they found eight migrants in life-threatening conditions hidden inside a narrow wooden pallet box that had been attached to the underside of a truck.

Police said the people from Turkey had been trafficked from Romania via Hungary to Austria. Several of them suffered from hypothermia during the trip in freezing temperatures, and some had fainted because they were exposed to the truck’s exhaust fumes for hours, police said in a statement Wednesday.

The migrants described their hiding place as a “horror box,” police said.

The driver of the truck, a 39-year-old Turkish man, was arrested along with a 56-year-old alleged accomplice, police said. They did not reveal any further details on the traffickers or the migrants.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/02/09/austrian-police-find-migrants-in-horror-box-under-truck