Overe 140 migrants found stranded

Over 140 migrants were found stranded this weekend on motorways in Britain and Austria, with at least a dozen children among them, police said yesterday.

Eighty-five squeezed into the back of a lorry -- including 16 children -- were discovered by police on Saturday abandoned on an Austrian motorway.

The refugees, mostly Afghans, had been locked into the lorry for at least 12 hours, and an eight-month pregnant women had to be taken to hospital after blacking out.