imageVIENNA: The bodies of more than 70 dead migrants have been recovered from an abandoned truck found on an Austrian motorway, more than the initial estimate of between 20 and 50, the Austrian government said Friday.

The number was confirmed to AFP by interior ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits. The lorry was found on Thursday on a motorway near the borders with Slovakia and Hungary.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2015

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