More than 70 bodies have been recovered from a lorry found abandoned near the border with Hungary, officials have said.<br /><br /> The announcement from the Austrian interior ministry on Friday represents a significant rise in the number of people, thought to be migrants, who are known to have died. Police had originally put the toll at 50.<br /><br /> The refrigerated, air-tight truck was found on Thursday by an Austrian motorway patrol with fluid seeping out. The bodies were probably inside for two days.<br /><br /> Austrian and Hungarian police are trying to find the driver.<br /><br /> Local police chief Hans Peter Doskozil described the moment the truck doors were opened:<br /><br /> “Our initial suspicions were confirmed. Inside the truck there were numerous dead bodies in an advanced state of decay.”<br /><br /> The vehicle bore the logo of a Slovakian poultry company, Hyza, which reportedly says the lorry had been sold.<br /><br /> It was found on Thursday by a motorway patrol on the A4, one of the main routes to Vienna.<br /><br /> It had been seen near
