Austria searches freight trains in new frontline on illegal migration

By Shadia Nasralla STEINACH AM BRENNER/Austria (Reuters) – Austrian police have started searching freight trains traveling from Italy at night to tackle illegal migration and avert further deaths after two stowaways died earlier this month. A man and a woman from Eritrea who had hidden on a train bringing trucks from Italy were crushed to death in Austria’s Tyrol province, likely having lost consciousness due to freezing winter temperatures. Since early November, police have picked up about 90 African migrants heading for Germany on railways in Tyrol, which are used by most cargo trains going from Italy across the Alps.
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