Quelle: The Guardian
Only a day after 71 people suffocated in a chicken lorry, three children were rescued from a crammed truck in Austria. All had been on a perilous road route controlled by criminal gangs
It was, said David Furtner of the Austrian police, “a very close call”. The three young children had been crammed into a truck with more than 20 other people when they were stopped on Friday in the small town of St Peter am Hart, close to the German border. The children and their parents – from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh – were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Braunau and their 29-year-old driver, a Romanian, was arrested.
“Medical staff told us they would not have made it much longer,” said Furtner of the children, who, he added, were dizzy, dehydrated and in a critical condition.