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The deceased of a mother aged 34 and her 10-year-old daughter have been found inside freezers in an residence in the western part of Austria.

The deceased, a woman from Syria and her child, who had been unaccounted for for a number of months, were detected on the end of last week. The freezers were placed behind a plasterboard wall in the flat, located in the Innsbruck area.

Two individuals, a 55-year-old Austrian and his 53-year-old brother, were arrested in the month of June. The elder brother, a work associate of the female victim, told law enforcement last week that there had been an unfortunate event—but denied intentional killing.

Speaking to reporters previously, a representative for the public prosecutor's office said the brothers were being kept in custody on "high likelihood of intentional killing".

Personal details of those implicated have not been released by police, in following local legislation.

The vanishing of the mother and child was initially flagged by the female victim's relative, who resides in Germany, on the 25th of July last year.

Investigators said the male associate claimed at the time she had taken an long journey with her child to travel to her relatives in the nation of Turkey.

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

Yet when police examined the victim's residence, her smartphone was discovered.

A witness also reported hearing a commotion in the flat, and shouts of "mum" on the occasion the mother and child were thought to have disappeared.

An expanded criminal probe was started, with authorities finding several texts transmitted via the victim's mobile—such as a job termination message to her company and messages to the male colleague.

Authorities confirmed a four-figure sum was also sent to the man.

A senior police official informed reporters on recently that a storage unit had been leased before the mother and child went missing and a freezing appliance had been placed there.

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

Officials state they believe this suggests the fatalities were planned in advance.

"How they died could not be determined due to the state of decomposition of the remains," Tersch said.

A legal representative—from the legal authorities—stated the precise timeline is still unclear, but the remains were professionally hidden and went unnoticed during a previous house search.

While the brothers were detained in the summer, it was only on November 12 that the suspect confessed to an event and to storing the victims. He disputes any plan to cause death, officials said.

At the same time, his younger brother admitted to a cover-up but denied awareness of a killing.

The brothers are currently in detention before court proceedings in detention centers in Innsbruck and Salzburg, approximately 189 kilometers away from each other.

In a joint statement, the nation's official for women's affairs and Justice Minister declared the "suspected killing of two... symbolizes the abrupt and violent termination of two human lives and uncovers a brutal scheme".

"Women and girls are being killed due to the sole reason that they are female," they went on to say.

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