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

The deceased, a woman from Syria and her daughter, who had been missing for a number of months, were found on the end of last week. The freezers were placed behind a false wall in the dwelling, situated in the city of Innsbruck.

A pair of males, a 55-year-old Austrian and his 53-year-old brother, were taken into custody in the month of June. The 55-year-old, a colleague of the female victim, told law enforcement last week that there had been an accident—but rejected intentional killing.

Addressing reporters previously, a official for the state prosecutor announced the two suspects were being kept in custody on "serious suspicion of homicide".

Personal details of those concerned have been withheld by police, in following local legislation.

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

Police revealed the woman's colleague told them at the time she had gone on an long journey with her child to visit her parents in Turkey.

The mother's debit card was then found to have been used in foreign locations several times.

But when investigators entered the mother's apartment, her mobile phone was discovered.

A witness also reported listening to a loud noise in the apartment, and shouts of "mother" on the date the two were thought to have disappeared.

A wider criminal probe was started, with authorities finding multiple communications sent from the mother's device—among them a job termination message to her company and communications to the male colleague.

Law enforcement confirmed a four-figure sum was also sent to the suspect.

A senior police official told the press on that day that a rented space had been secured before the vanishing and a freezing appliance had been installed within.

The brothers extracted the freezer from the facility on the very day the woman and her child went missing, she stated. And a seven days after, they acquired a second unit.

Investigators say they believe this points to the deaths were intentionally orchestrated.

"The cause of death could not be determined due to the condition of the remains," the official commented.

A legal representative—of the public prosecutor's office—stated the exact sequence of events is still unclear, but the bodies were carefully placed and not discovered during a earlier inspection.

While the suspects were detained in June, it was not until the 12th of November that the suspect acknowledged an event and to concealing the remains. He disputes any plan to cause death, officials confirmed.

At the same time, his brother acknowledged a concealment but rejected awareness of a murder.

The pair are currently in custody awaiting trial in jails in two Austrian cities, around 117 miles (189km) apart.

In a joint statement, the nation's official for women's affairs and the top legal representative said the "alleged double murder... represents the swift and cruel conclusion of two individuals and exposes a cruel system".

"Female individuals are falling victim to homicide due to the sole reason that they are of the female gender," they continued.

"Murders of women are a profoundly embedded and issue affecting all of society that we must combat firmly."