The discovery of a 250-kilogram bomb from World War II near the train station in Tyrolean Wörgl (Kufstein district) led to a suspension of train traffic and evacuations of surrounding houses on Wednesday afternoon The bomb was discovered around 1:40 PM during excavation work with a digger near the tracks Specialists from the bomb disposal service were on site and the defusal was underway in the early evening How long train traffic at Wörgl station would be interrupted was currently not foreseeable Spokesperson Christoph Gasser-Mair expected restrictions until the early evening when speaking to APA and simultaneously asked for understanding not everything can be restarted at the push of a button While in the meantime it was possible to continue traveling by train towards Innsbruck the station was completely closed again in the late afternoon Shortly after the suspension was announced a rail replacement service for long-distance and regional traffic was set up Buses were organized for the routes between Wörgl and Kufstein in the Unterland as well as Wörgl and Hopfgarten in the Brixental up to 400 people in the surrounding houses and streets were affected by the evacuations said the deputy district police commander of Kufstein not all affected individuals were likely at home at the time The people brought to safety found accommodation at the Wörgl fire station The radius of the closures around the discovery site was doubled to 200 meters in the afternoon all persons who were outdoors within a radius of 400 meters from the discovery site were asked to leave the area the access road to the Inntal motorway (A12) at Wörgl-Ost was also initially closed for safety reasons in the afternoon traffic on the motorway itself was not affected This article has been automatically translated, read the original article here Two migrants who had apparently hidden on a train bringing trucks from Italy to Austria were found dead early today either of cold or because they were crushed when the vehicles were unloaded A third migrant was seriously injured and taken to hospital the police in the western province of Tyrol said adding that the migrant's nationalities were not known Having been swept up in Europe's migration crisis last year Austria led a coordinated effort with Balkan countries to shut down what was then the main route into the heart of Europe for hundreds of thousands of people many of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere As the flow of people into Europe shifted this summer towards the sea route linking North Africa to Italy Austria threatened to introduce border checks at the Brenner crossing a vital transport link connecting Italy to northern Europe But that influx did not materialise and Austria has praised Italy's work in keeping the number of migrants headed towards it at a low level The Austrian police said the migrants killed and injured were likely headed for Germany the country most migrants arriving in Europe have been trying to reach The town at which the trucks were unloaded is roughly 15 km (24 miles) from Austria's border with Germany is an alternative to driving trucks across the border A police spokesman said the migrants were hiding under the trucks and would have had about 20 minutes to leave between when the trucks switched on their engines and started moving "Since they stayed lying there we assume that because of the cold they may have lost consciousness or were perhaps already dead," he said adding that the temperature in Woergl had been around -2 Celsius (28 Fahrenheit) Immigration has become a sensitive issue in Austria which is holding it presidential election on Sunday in which Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer could become the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two please register for free or log in to your account.