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Immigration

Eight face charges over Austria migrant truck deaths

Hungarian police will seek charges against eight suspects after completing a probe into the deaths of 71 migrants and refugees found in a truck in Austria last year, in a case that sent shockwaves through Europe.

smugglers

Austrian arrested in Hungary carrying six Syrians in his car

A 49-year-old Austrian has been taken into custody in Hungary after police carrying out checks discovered he was transporting six Syrians in his car.

Immigration

Migrant people-smuggling gang jailed in Austria

An Austrian court sentenced five people to jail on Thursday for smuggling some 2,000 refugees and migrants into the country last year, in what judges described as "excruciating conditions".

Immigration

Serbian gang smuggled 2,000 refugees into Austria

Five suspected people smugglers are on trial in Korneuburg, Lower Austria - accused of bringing around 2,000 migrants and refugees into Austria between February and September 2015.

Immigration

Forensic investigators begin to ID victims

Austrian forensic investigators have so far identified nine of the men and one of the women from the lorry in which 71 refugees lost their lives in August.

Police

Police bust cigarette smuggling ring

Customs officials in the city of Graz have arrested five cigarette smugglers responsible for smuggling about 1.3 million cigarettes from Serbia to Austria.