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![Migrants sleep on a bench at a park in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. Over 10,000 migrants, including many women with babies and small children, have crossed into Serbia over the past few days and headed toward Hungary and the EU Schengen Area, a zone with no internal border checks between member countries]()
Migrants sleep on a bench at a park in Belgrade, Serbia on Friday. Over 10,000 migrants, including many women with babies and small children, have crossed into Serbia over the past few days and headed toward Hungary and the EU Schengen Area: photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/AP, 28 August 2015
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#migrantcrisis - A man creeps under the metal fence near Roszke, at Hungarian-Serbian border. By Csaba Segesvari #AFP: image via Chrisophe Delattre @chrisdelattre7, 26 August 2015
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#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
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#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
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#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
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#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
Just drove past truck on A4 in Austria with 50 dead refugees inside. Terrible smell of death as we passed.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
Police cars round truck in which refugees died at side of #Austrian motorway. Travelling fm Serbia, they suffocated.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
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Forensic experts investigate a truck in which refugees were found dead in Austria: photo by Roland Schlager/EPA, 27 August 2015
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An abandoned truck carrying the dead bodies of people assumed to be migrants was found in Austria on Thursday. Images in the Austrian news media showed a white vehicle with a rear cooler compartment, emblazoned with the word “Hyza” in brown letters, with a chicken standing in for the letter Y, surrounded by police cars.: photo by Roland Schlager/European Pressphoto Agency, 27 August 2015
Austrian forensic team at truck. Driver reportedly fled. Bodies of #refugees still inside: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
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A truck stands on the shoulder of the highway A4 near Parndorf south of Vienna, on Austria, Thursday. At least 20 migrants were found dead in the truck parked on the Austrian highway leading from the Hungarian border, police said: photo by Ronald Zak/AP, 27 August 2015
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Up to 50 dead as Austria finds truck loaded with migrant bodies: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
At least 20 migrants found dead in truck on Austria highway: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
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Investigations underway after up to 50 refugees found dead in truck in Austria:: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 27 August 2015
![Forensic investigators are seen working on a refrigerated truck parked along a highway near Neusiedl am See, Austria, on August 27, 2015. The bodies of between 20 and 50 migrants have been found in the truck on the A 4 highway in Austria, police said Thursday, the latest tragedy involving people desperately trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL]( "Forensic investigators are seen working on a refrigerated truck parked along a highway near Neusiedl am See, Austria, on August 27, 2015. The bodies of between 20 and 50 migrants have been found in the truck on the A 4 highway in Austria, police said Thursday, the latest tragedy involving people desperately trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL")
A ticket on the #refugee train from Macedonia to Serbia. 10 euros. Sardine room only. Fresh air through open doors.: image via Anemona Hartocollis @anemenanyc, 26 August 2015
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Migrants waiting in line for documents at a refugee processing center on Thursday in Presevo, Serbia: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 27 August 2015
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@anemonanyc is traveling with migrants desperate to reach Hungary before it seals its border: image via Palko Karasz @karaszpalko, 27 August 2015
Budapest train stations morph into makeshift refugee camps: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
Hundreds of refugees are camping at the railway station in #Budapest. #Hungary.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
Afghans heading for Northern Europe - Hungarian govt won't let them take train without passports so stuck at station.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
#Keleti station in #Budapest, temporary home to some 500 people fleeing war and poverty in #Syria, #Afghanistan, etc.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
#Keleti station in #Budapest, temporary home to some 500 people who've left fleeing war and poverty in #Syria, #Afghanistan, & elsewhere: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
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![A Syrian migrant carries children as he walks along railway track to cross Serbian border with Hungary near the village of Horgos...A Syrian migrant carries his children as he walks along a railway track to cross the Serbian border with Hungary near the village of Horgos August 27, 2015. Hungary made plans on Wednesday to reinforce its southern border with helicopters, mounted police and dogs, and was also considering using the army as record numbers of migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe]()
Migrants sleep on a bench at a park in Belgrade, Serbia on Friday. Over 10,000 migrants, including many women with babies and small children, have crossed into Serbia over the past few days and headed toward Hungary and the EU Schengen Area: photo by Marko Drobnjakovic/AP, 28 August 2015
Under the Wire
#migrantcrisis - A man creeps under the metal fence near Roszke, at Hungarian-Serbian border. By Csaba Segesvari #AFP: image via Chrisophe Delattre @chrisdelattre7, 26 August 2015
#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
#Hungary - #Migrants crawl under a barbed fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke. By @afpattila @AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 August 2015
Honest Chicken in Transit Zone Europe
Just drove past truck on A4 in Austria with 50 dead refugees inside. Terrible smell of death as we passed.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
Hungarian police arrest driver of lorry that had 71 dead migrants inside: Romanian national held after death toll in Austrian motorway tragedy is raised from initial estimate of about 50 victims: Luke harding and agencies, The Guardian, 28 August 2015
Hungarian police have arrested the driver of a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies of more than 70 people inside.
Police cars round truck in which refugees died at side of #Austrian motorway. Travelling fm Serbia, they suffocated.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
The man is a Romanian national, a police statement said on Friday. It came as the Austrian interior ministry confirmed it had made arrests in the case, following reports from the Krone newspaper that seven smugglers linked to the lorry had been held by authorities in Hungary. The main organisers are still at large, and believed to be in Romania, it said.
The death toll was raised on Friday from initial estimates of 20 to 50 following the discovery of the remains on Thursday morning on Austria’s A4 motorway between Neusiedl and Parndorf. The truck, which had been abandoned on the hard shoulder of the road near Parndorf, had apparently been there since Wednesday. Austrian police said all those on board appeared to have suffocated and died before they entered the country.
Forensic experts investigate a truck in which refugees were found dead in Austria: photo by Roland Schlager/EPA, 27 August 2015
Austrian police said of the 71 dead, 59 were men, eight women and four children, and included Syrian refugees.
The lorry set off from Budapest in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and reached the Hungarian-Austrian border by 9am. It crossed into Austria that night and was spotted on the A4 at 5am or 6am on Thursday, police said.
Forensic team at the truck containing suffocated #refugees at side of #Austrian motorway. Travelling fm Serbia, they suffocated.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
The state of the bodies had made establishing an exact death toll difficult. Their identities were also not known, said Hans Peter Doskozil, head of police in the eastern district of Burgenland. “The deaths already occurred some time ago,” he added. “We can make no concrete assumptions about the origin or cause [of death]. We can assume, however, that they are refugees.”
An abandoned truck on the outskirts of Vienna was found to contain the decomposed remains the bodies of 71 people, assumed to be migrants: photo by Roland Schlager/European Pressphoto Agency, 27 August 2015
The 7.5-tonne vehicle used to belong to the Slovak chicken meat company Hyza and still has the slogan “Honest chicken” on the side. The company said it sold the lorry in 2014. According to the Hungarian government, it is registered to a Romanian citizen from the central city of Kecskemét.
Austrian forensic team at truck of dead refugees. What a terrible, necessary, heartbreaking job.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
Road officials said on Thursday that an employee mowing the grass alerted police after noticing putrid liquid dripping from the back of the white refrigerated vehicle. Its door had been left ajar. Detectives then made the grim discovery.
An abandoned truck carrying the dead bodies of people assumed to be migrants was found in Austria on Thursday. Images in the Austrian news media showed a white vehicle with a rear cooler compartment, emblazoned with the word “Hyza” in brown letters, with a chicken standing in for the letter Y, surrounded by police cars.: photo by Roland Schlager/European Pressphoto Agency, 27 August 2015
Forensic teams at the scene examined the lorry, which has Hungarian number plates. Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News tweeted that the “smell of death” at the scene was overwhelming. On Thursday afternoon, police towed the vehicle to a nearby hall and began removing bodies.
Austrian forensic team at truck. Driver reportedly fled. Bodies of #refugees still inside: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 27 August 2015
In a statement on Thursday, Austria’s interior minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, denounced the traffickers as criminals. “This tragedy is a concern for us all. Smugglers are criminals. They have no interest in the welfare of refugees. Only profit.”
A truck stands on the shoulder of the highway A4 near Parndorf south of Vienna, on Austria, Thursday. At least 20 migrants were found dead in the truck parked on the Austrian highway leading from the Hungarian border, police said: photo by Ronald Zak/AP, 27 August 2015
The EU has found itself overwhelmed by the sheer scale of migration, with a record number of 107,500 migrants crossing the EU’s border last month. Chaotic attempts by Macedonian police to hold back refugees last week failed. On Wednesday, the UN's Refugee Agency said it expected 3,000 people a day to enter Macedonia from Greece until at least the end of the year.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Bosnian Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic, from left, listen to a speech at the start of the Western Balkans Summit in the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria: photo by Roland Zak/AP, 27 August 2015
Berlin, backed by Austria, wants a new system of mandatory quotas for refugees across the EU despite the issue being rejected in acrimonious scenes by EU leaders at a summit in June. Germany expects 800,000 asylum applications this year. The EU has also proposed a common “safe countries of origin” list, which would see migrants from these nations swiftly deported.
With the EU’s common border policy increasingly dysfunctional, member states are taking matters into their own hands. Hungary is building a new fence along its border with Serbia, though this week refugees got through with relative ease.Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, opposes the initiative, saying: “We are not advocates of fences.”
Up to 50 dead as Austria finds truck loaded with migrant bodies: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
On Tuesday, meanwhile, Austrian police arrested three drivers on suspicion of transporting migrants from Syria and other war-torn areas into the EU. One of them had driven 34 people packed into the back of a white van across the Austrian border.
The group included 10 small children, whom the driver abandoned by the side of the motorway near the city of Bruck an der Leitha. According to police, the migrants said in interviews they were hardly able to breathe during the trip.
They had asked repeatedly for more air, but the driver had ignored their requests, police added, and had driven without stopping from Serbia to Austria.
At least 20 migrants found dead in truck on Austria highway: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
Amnesty International’s Europe deputy director, Gauri van Gulik, said countries in the region needed urgently to do more.
“People dying in their dozens –- whether crammed into a truck or a ship -– en route to seek safety or better lives is a tragic indictment of Europe’s failures to provide alternative routes,” he said. “Europe has to step up and provide protection to more, share responsibility better and show solidarity to other countries and to those most in need.”
Investigations underway after up to 50 refugees found dead in truck in Austria:: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 27 August 2015
Honest Chicken Took Them On Their Last Ride
Dozens of dead migrants found in abandoned lorry in eastern Austria, near the Hungarian border. The German daily Kurier has written that the refugees suffocated to death in the lorry's cargo container, probably a long time ago. Hyza, Slovakia's leading poultry producer and processor, said in a press release that the lorry no longer belongs to the company, which sold it in 2013 or 2014. Hyza, seated in Topoľčany, west Slovakia, says on its website that since 2006 it has been a part of Agrofert, a giant holding company owned by Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis.: photo by Czech News Agency via Prague Post, 27 August 2015
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Iron modder entry. Magpul magpul, silencer, halo sight. Fried chicken.: photo by Yappen All Day Long, 9 December 2011
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from Dal Tokyo (detail): Gary Panter, 1984; image via Fantagraphics Books, 2012
Honest Chicken says
Come with me Little Refugee
And see the world from the dark place inside
This large metal box on wheels
But don't expect to breathe too deeply
Or too often
On the long road north
And west
To the Land of Your Dreams
Iron modder entry. Magpul magpul, silencer, halo sight. Fried chicken.: photo by Yappen All Day Long, 9 December 2011
from Dal Tokyo (detail): Gary Panter, 1984; image via Fantagraphics Books, 2012
Transit Zone Europe
A ticket on the #refugee train from Macedonia to Serbia. 10 euros. Sardine room only. Fresh air through open doors.: image via Anemona Hartocollis @anemenanyc, 26 August 2015
Migrants waiting in line for documents at a refugee processing center on Thursday in Presevo, Serbia: photo by Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times, 27 August 2015
@anemonanyc is traveling with migrants desperate to reach Hungary before it seals its border: image via Palko Karasz @karaszpalko, 27 August 2015
Budapest train stations morph into makeshift refugee camps: image via Agence France-Presse @AFP, 27 August 2015
Refugee children playing at a way station just inside #Hungary. Their families hope to reach Germany. #Syria: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 25 August 2015
Hard to be a refugee when you're disabled or injured. Just arrived in #Hungary. #Serbia: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 25 August 2015
Hundreds of refugees are camping at the railway station in #Budapest. #Hungary.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
Afghans heading for Northern Europe - Hungarian govt won't let them take train without passports so stuck at station.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
#Keleti station in #Budapest, temporary home to some 500 people fleeing war and poverty in #Syria, #Afghanistan, etc.: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
#Keleti station in #Budapest, temporary home to some 500 people who've left fleeing war and poverty in #Syria, #Afghanistan, & elsewhere: image via Lindsey Hulsum @lindseyhulsum, 26 August 2015
Across Transit Zone Europe: Long Walk, Small Promise
............................................................................Thousands reach Europe before border is blocked. Photo by: Armend Nimani/ AFP: image via The Times Pictures @Times Pictures, 25 August 2015
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