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| Austria migrant lorry found with critically ill children | Austria migrant lorry found with critically ill children |
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| Three children have been found in a critical condition after being rescued from a lorry in Austria that contained 26 migrants, police said. | |
| The lorry was stopped in Braunau district and the Romanian driver was arrested after a chase. | The lorry was stopped in Braunau district and the Romanian driver was arrested after a chase. |
| Those inside were said to be from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. | Those inside were said to be from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. |
| Separately, four men appeared in court in Hungary following the discovery of another truck in Austria last week containing the bodies of 71 people. | |
| The three Bulgarians and an Afghan, who were arrested in Hungary, were remanded in custody until 29 September. Austria is expected to seek their extradition. | |
| In the latest incident - which happened early on Friday but was not reported until Saturday - the three children were taken to hospital suffering from severe dehydration. | |
| Officials said their lives were no longer in danger but they are still in hospital. | |
| Police had tried to stop the vehicle near St Peter am Hart and gave chase when it drove off at speed. | Police had tried to stop the vehicle near St Peter am Hart and gave chase when it drove off at speed. |
| The discovery of the 71 bodies in the lorry left on a roadside near the Hungarian border last week led to an outcry. | |
| Officials said the 59 men, eight women and four children had probably died of suffocation two days earlier. | |
| Police were alerted when a road worker saw liquid seeping from the vehicle and the badly decomposing bodies were found inside. The victims are thought to be mainly Syrians. | |
| Police believe the vehicle found its way there as part of a Bulgarian-Hungarian human smuggling network. |