Hans Peter Doskozil, chief of police in Austria's eastern Burgenland province, said two of the suspects are Bulgarian and the third has Hungarian identity papers. |
Other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene. |
Police in Burgenland said the relics were taken by the man, 47, without authorisation from a church cemetery. |
The nine people detained in Austria were arrested in the Southern province of Carinthia and Burgenland in the West, reports said. |
Siegendorf is a small village in Burgenland about forty miles south of Vienna where the great Hungarian plain rises up to meet the foothills of the Alps. |
The migrants are likely to have suffocated, according to Hans Peter Doskozil, chief of police in eastern Burgenland province. |