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The Latest: 71 dead migrants in Austrian truck, 4 kids

Chief of the Burgenland police, Hans Peter Doskozil, informs the media at a news conference at a police station in Eisenstadt, Austria, Thursday, Aug 27, 2015. Austrian police on Thursday discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — migrants stacked in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main highway from Budapest to Vienna . (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) Chief of the Burgenland police, Hans Peter Doskozil, informs the media at a news conference at a police station in Eisenstadt, Austria, Thursday, Aug 27, 2015. Austrian police on Thursday discovered the badly decomposing bodies of at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — migrants stacked in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main highway from Budapest to Vienna . (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

By Associated Press August 28, 2015 1 min read

VIENNA (AP) – Austrian police say three people have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a food struck on an Austrian highway.

The toll includes eight women and four children, one of them an infant.

The death toll and the arrests were announced at a news conference Friday, a day after the vehicle was found on the main highway between Vienna and Budapest, Hungary.