Motorway to Vienna jams as Austria cracks down on smugglers

Ben Bassey 10:59 - 31 August 2015

Hungarian motorway to Vienna jams as Austria cracks down on smugglers

Hungarian police said on Sunday they had arrested a fifth suspect in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants whose bodies were found in an abandoned refrigeration lorry on a highway in Austria last week.

A Hungarian motorway leading to Austria was jammed for 20 kilometres (12 miles) on Monday morning as Austrian authorities tightened controls on vehicles that could be used for human trafficking, national news agency MTI reported.

Besides the M1 motorway, a secondary main road was also jammed, state road operator Magyar Kozut told MTI. Over the past three days, police have caught 8,792 migrants crossing into Hungary, most of them from Serbia.