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The deceased of a 34-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter have been discovered inside freezing appliances in an apartment in western Austria.

The victims, a woman from Syria and her daughter, who had been missing for several months, were uncovered on the end of last week. The cooling units were hidden behind a drywall partition in the apartment, situated in the Innsbruck area.

Two men, a Austrian man, 55 and his 53-year-old brother, were arrested in the month of June. The older man, a work associate of the female victim, informed law enforcement last week that there had been an accident—but disputed homicide.

Informing journalists previously, a official for the legal authorities said the two suspects were being held on "strong suspicion of homicide".

Personal details of those concerned have not been disclosed by authorities, in following Austrian law.

The family's disappearance was initially flagged by the cousin of the mother, who resides in Germany, on the 25th of July last year.

Authorities revealed the woman's colleague informed them at the time she had embarked on an prolonged visit with her child to visit her parents in Turkey.

The victim's bank card was then discovered to be utilized in foreign locations on multiple occasions.

However when police examined the mother's apartment, her smartphone was discovered.

An individual also stated hearing a loud noise in the flat, and shouts of "mum" on the occasion the mother and child were thought to have disappeared.

An expanded official inquiry was launched, with officers finding various messages sent from the mother's device—including a notice of quitting to her workplace and messages to the 55-year-old suspect.

Law enforcement said a amount in the thousands was also transferred to the suspect.

Katja Tersch stated to the press on that day that a rented space had been rented out before the mother and child went missing and a cooling unit had been positioned inside.

The male siblings removed the cooling unit from the facility on the day the mother and daughter vanished, the official stated. And a shortly afterward, they obtained an additional appliance.

Investigators believe they consider this points to the demise were intentionally orchestrated.

"How they died could not be determined due to the advanced decay of the bodies," the official commented.

The prosecutor's spokesman—from the legal authorities—noted the exact sequence of events is yet to be determined, but the bodies were expertly concealed and not discovered during a prior examination.

While the brothers were arrested in the summer, it was only on November 12 that the suspect acknowledged an incident and to concealing the remains. He denies any plan to cause death, authorities said.

Meanwhile, his brother admitted to a cover-up but disputed involvement in a murder.

The pair are at this time in custody awaiting trial in detention centers in separate locations, approximately 189 kilometers away from each other.

In a joint statement, the nation's official for women's affairs and the top legal representative declared the "suspected killing of two... constitutes the swift and cruel conclusion of two human lives and reveals a cruel system".

"Female individuals are falling victim to homicide due to the simple reality that they are women and girls," they went on to say.

"Femicides are a strongly established and widespread concern that we must fight resolutely."