Hungary's prosecution order arrest of four detained in relation to dead migrants' truck

A local prosecutors' office in Hungary on Saturday ordered the formal arrest of three Bulgarians and one Afghan citizens already in detention for their roles in the deaths of 71 refugees found in an abandoned truck on a motorway outside Vienna.

Gabor Schmidt, a prosecutor in Kecskemet, Hungary, in a statement said that the four had played roles in the transport from Hungary to Austria of the people found dead in the truck with Hungarian license plates.

Schmidt said that based on information obtained to date, the people smugglers had picked up the refugees, who illegally crossed the Serbian-Hungarian border into Hungary, in the city of Kecskemet, and had transported them to Austria. The four men were apprehended on Thursday.

The prosecution had demanded the four to remain in custody since, as foreigners, they were likely to abscond if released as well as to try to influence others with information on the crime.

The prosecution is treating the four as participants in organized crime. Endit