Hungarian prosecutors are taking over the criminal case in which 71 refugees were found dead in the back of a truck

Hungarian prosecutors are taking over the criminal case in which 71 refugees were found dead in the back of a truck in neighboring Austria.

The Office of Hungary's Prosecutor General said Wednesday it had accepted a request by the Austrian justice ministry to take over the proceedings.

Five men — four Bulgarians and one Afghan — have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the deaths. The 71 bodies, many still unidentified, were discovered Aug. 27 in a refrigerated truck parked in the safety lane of the main Budapest-to-Vienna A4 highway.

Prosecutors say the truck set off from the central Hungarian city of Kecskemet before traffickers picked up the migrants near Hungary's southern border with Serbia. They say the refugees likely suffocated to death while the truck was still in Hungary...............

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