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

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

Two men, a 55-year-old Austrian and his brother aged 53, were detained in the month of June. The older man, a colleague of the Syrian woman, informed law enforcement last week that there had been an accident—but denied intentional killing.

Informing journalists recently, a representative for the legal authorities announced the pair were being held on "serious suspicion of intentional killing".

The names of those concerned have been withheld by police, in following local legislation.

Their going missing was originally brought to light by the woman's cousin, who resides in Germany, on the 25th of July last year.

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

Her bank card was then found to have been used overseas several times.

However when police examined the victim's residence, her smartphone was located.

An individual also stated overhearing a disturbing sound in the dwelling, and screams of "mama" on the occasion the mother and child were thought to have disappeared.

A wider police investigation was started, with investigators discovering several texts sent from the woman's phone—among them a resignation letter to her company and messages to the male colleague.

Law enforcement stated a amount in the thousands was also moved to the man.

A senior police official told the press on Tuesday that a storage facility had been secured before the mother and child went missing and a freezing appliance had been placed there.

The male siblings extracted the cooling unit from the unit on the day the woman and her child disappeared, Tersch said. And a seven days after, they acquired a second unit.

Authorities believe they consider this indicates the demise were intentionally orchestrated.

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

A legal representative—representing the state—noted the precise timeline is not yet known, but the remains were expertly concealed and not discovered during a prior examination.

While the suspects were taken into custody in the summer, it was only on the 12th of November that the elder brother acknowledged an occurrence and to storing the victims. He disputes any intent to kill, officials stated.

In a related development, his younger brother confessed to a attempt to hide evidence but disputed involvement in a homicide.

The two suspects are currently in detention before court proceedings in detention centers in two Austrian cities, approximately 189 kilometers away from each other.

Via a shared communication, the nation's official for women's affairs and the top legal representative stated the "alleged double murder... symbolizes the sudden and brutal end of a mother and child 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 strongly established and society-wide problem that we must combat firmly."