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The deceased of a 34-year-old woman and her young daughter, 10 have been discovered inside freezers in an residence in the western part of Austria.

The victims, a Syrian woman and her daughter, who had been unaccounted for for several months, were detected on Friday. The cooling units were placed behind a plasterboard wall in the dwelling, located in the city of Innsbruck.

Two men, a Austrian man, 55 and his brother aged 53, were taken into custody in June. The 55-year-old, a colleague of the Syrian woman, informed law enforcement last week that there had been an unfortunate event—but denied homicide.

Informing the media earlier, a official for the state prosecutor said the pair were being detained on "serious suspicion of murder".

The names of those concerned have not been released by law enforcement, in compliance with Austrian law.

Their going missing was initially flagged by the woman's cousin, who is based in Germany, on the 25th of July last year.

Authorities stated the male associate claimed at the time she had taken an extended trip with her daughter to visit her parents in the nation of Turkey.

Her bank card was then noted as being active overseas repeatedly.

Yet when investigators examined the mother's apartment, her cellphone was located.

Someone also stated listening to a commotion in the flat, and cries of "mama" on the occasion the two were believed to have vanished.

A wider criminal probe was initiated, with officers finding various messages transmitted via the woman's phone—including a notice of quitting to her workplace and communications to the 55-year-old suspect.

Officials stated a four-figure sum was also transferred to the suspect.

A senior police official told the press on that day that a storage facility had been leased before the vanishing and a freezing appliance had been installed within.

The male siblings removed the freezer from the storage space on the day the victims disappeared, she revealed. And a shortly afterward, they acquired a second unit.

Investigators believe they believe this indicates the deaths were planned in advance.

"How they died was not identifiable due to the state of decomposition of the bodies," Tersch stated.

A legal representative—representing the state—stated the specific order of occurrences is not yet known, but the remains were carefully placed and not discovered during a previous house search.

While the men were detained in June, it was not until 12 November that the suspect admitted to an occurrence and to hiding the bodies. He denies any intent to kill, authorities said.

Meanwhile, his 53-year-old sibling acknowledged a attempt to hide evidence but denied knowledge of a homicide.

The pair are presently in detention before court proceedings in jails in Innsbruck and Salzburg, approximately 189 kilometers away from each other.

In a joint statement, Austria's Minister for Women and the top legal representative stated the "suspected killing of two... constitutes the swift and cruel conclusion of a mother and child and uncovers a cruel system".

"Female individuals are being murdered due to the mere fact that they are women and girls," they added.

"Femicides are a profoundly embedded and issue affecting all of society that we must fight resolutely."