"We found a total of 17 travel documents. Based on these we have been
able to determine that this was a mixed group of people. Syrian
nationals, Iraqis and also Afghans are likely to have been on board,"
Doskozil said.
Among the 71 dead migrants found
last week in an abandoned truck on an Austrian motorway were Syrian,
Iraqi and Afghan nationals but not a single one of them has been
identified, Austrian police said on Friday.
Hans Peter Doskozil,
police chief for the province of Burgenland, told a news conference
that the migrants had likely died from suffocation on Hungarian
territory shortly after entering the truck, whose refrigeration system
was not working.
"We found a total of 17
travel documents. Based on these we have been able to determine that
this was a mixed group of people. Syrian nationals, Iraqis and also
Afghans are likely to have been on board," Doskozil said.
He said 40 phones had also been found and there had been contact with people who claimed to be relatives of the victims.
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