He said the time and cause of death still had to be determined but there was a “certain probability” they had suffocated.
On Friday evening, Hungarians held a vigil for the victims outside Budapest’s main train station, where thousands of migrants have been sheltering for weeks.
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The United Nations estimates 300,000 people have fled conflict and hardship in the Middle East and Africa for a better life in Europe this year, but 2,500 have died in the attempt, the majority during dangerous voyages across the Mediterranean in rickety boats.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Friday for governments to step up their response, saying he had been “horrified and heartbroken” at the recent deaths.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Fayman and French President Francois Hollande called during a phone call for a “unified European system of asylum and a common migration policy”.
The victims in Austria were likely among the more than 100,000 people to have trekked up through the western Balkans into EU member Hungary this year.
From Hungary, which is laying a barbed-wire barrier along its border with Serbia to try to keep migrants out, many attempt to make it to richer nations like Germany and Sweden.
On Friday, Hungary’s government proposed stiffer penalties for border jumpers and people smugglers, including a three-year jail term for those caught breaching the new fence.
“We passed by sea. And the sea was just a game playing with our lives,” said Lashkari, a 30-year-old Afghan picked up by Hungarian border police Thursday after travelling for 30 days.
“I don’t think we’ve reached our final destination yet because after this we don’t know where do we go,” he told AFP.
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