A police spokesman told a news conference carried on Austrian television he could not put an exact figure on the number of victims. “We can assume that it could be 20 people who died. It could also be 40, it could be 50 people,” he said.
Initial indications were that they suffocated, according to local press.
An interior ministry spokesman confirmed that a tractor trailer had been found on a motorway by the town of Parndorf.
“Unfortunately there are many dead people in there,” he added.
Reuters
