Three young children suffering from dehydration and close to death were rescued from a van crammed with 26 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, Austrian police said on Saturday. The two girls and a boy, aged 5 and 6, were found in a dire state when police stopped the vehicle after a chase near the Austrian town of St. Peter am Hart on the border with Germany, a police spokesman said. They are recovering in hospital. "The emergency doctor told us they would not have made it much longer - two, maybe three hours," said David Furtner, police spokesman for the Upper Austria province. Another spokesman said that the two 5-year-old girls and one 6-year-old boy were in "stable" condition in hospital Saturday.The incident came a day after the decomposing bodies of 59 men, eight women and four children were found in an abandoned truck on a motorway in eastern Austria near the Hungarian border, provoking international revulsion. The tragic discovery highlighted the dangers faced by people fleeing conflict and hardship in the Middle East and Africa even once they reach Europe, with many putting their fate in the hands of profit-hungry people smugglers.Saying he was "horrified and heartbroken" by the gruesome discovery and by a new Mediterranean shipwreck off Libya that claimed at least 111 lives, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday it was high time for concerted action to tackle the crisis. Libyan rescue workers said Saturday that "dozens" of people were still missing after a boat carrying around 400 would-be migrants sank Thursday off the country's western shores. A total of 198 people have been rescued. As Europe struggles with the crisis, a 17-year-old migrant seeking to reach Europe was found dead with a gunshot wound on a yacht approaching a Greek island on Saturday after smugglers clashed with Greece's coast guard, authorities said.The United Nations estimates 300,000 people have fled conflict and hardship in the Middle East and Africa for a better life in Europe this year. Some 2,500 have died in the attempt, mostly in the Mediterranean. "My little sister, someone climbed on her back and pushed her down. When I saw her for the last time, she was underwater with him on top of her," Pakistani Shefaz Hamza, 17, a survivor who also lost his mother in the latest tragedy, told AFP in Libya.Hungarian police said yesterday that they have arrested a fifth man, as three Bulgarians and one Afghan were already arrested over the Austrian horror story and remanded in custody on Saturday until Sept. 29 in Kecskemet, a town near the Serbian border where the truck is thought to have picked up its passengers. The discovery in Austria was a rare occurrence on European soil, when so many migrants have died at sea. Police said the victims might have been dead for up to two days. But as illustrated by the latest case with the three children, such a tragedy was only a matter of time as tens of thousands of people seek to make it north from Greece, Italy and Hungary to places like Germany and Sweden.Hungary, where the death truck with 71 corpses originated, said meanwhile that it has completed a razor-wire barrier along its 175-kilometer frontier with Serbia in an effort to prevent thousands of migrants entering the EU country. Meanwhile in Germany, which expects to absorb 800,000 asylum seekers this year, between 2,000 and 4,000 people demonstrated in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday in solidarity with refugees following a string of violent anti-migrant protests in the region.After recent incidents, Germany, France and Britain made a joint call Sunday for an urgent meeting of EU interior and justice ministers to find concrete measures to cope with an escalating migration crisis. "The ministers have asked the Luxembourg presidency to organize a special meeting of justice and interior ministers within the next two weeks, so as to find concrete steps" on the crisis, said interior ministers from the three countries in a joint statement. Martin Schulz, a German SocialDemocrat and the head of the European Parliament, said the "glaring failures" of some European countries to take in refugees are turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave and creating gruesome scenes at borders. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also said yesterday that the attitude of a number of eastern European countries towards the migrant crisis facing the EU is "scandalous," pointing in particular to an anti-migrant barrier in Hungary.Considering the sharp increase in the number of migrants trying to reach Europe's border, EU policies on migrants have been accused of undermining the value of human life, while imposing strict measures over search and rescue operations. Last week, the United Nations' refugee agency called on Europe to band together in dealing with the ongoing migrant crisis following chaotic scenes in different countries. More capacity is required to ensure the safety of migrants on their journey to other parts of Europe, according to a statement from UNHCR.