Syrian children disappear overnight from Austrian hospital
Three Syrian children alongside their families have gone missing from a hospital in Austria after being rescued from a minivan crammed with refugees, Austrian authorities say.
The children - two girls and a boy aged between one and five years old- disappeared on Saturday from a hospital in the western town of Braunau am Inn, located on the border with Germany, Austrian police announced on Sunday.
According to authorities, they might have tried to cross the border into Germany instead of facing deportation back to Hungary where they came from.
The missing children and their families had been hospitalized there on Friday after they were found severely dehydrated and almost unconscious in a minivan loaded with other refugees near the town.
The vehicle, driven by a Romanian, had refused to stop for a routine check but finally was pulled over by police after a chase. It contained 26 refugees from Syria, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan and wanted to enter Germany.
On Thursday, an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 71 refugees, partially decomposed, including four children was discovered on a parking strip along the highway in Austria’s eastern Burgenland State, near the Hungarian border.
The state of the corpses and an overpowering stench in the truck suggested that those inside had died long before. Forensics experts worked all night to clear out the vehicle.
Tens of thousands of asylum seekers from conflict-stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa have been trying to enter Europe in recent months.
According to officials, a record number of 107,500 migrants crossed the EU borders last month only.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has reportedly claimed more than 240,000 lives up until now.
The United Nations says the militancy has displaced more than 7.2 million Syrians internally, and compelled over four million others to take refuge in neighboring countries, including Jordan and Lebanon.
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