General News, page 230

• Dead man still unidentified by police
  Police are still unable to identify the body of a man found in a weir system in the Triesting River on Saturday.
• Warm but rainy over the holiday weekend
  It will be warmer but rainy over the upcoming Pentecost holiday weekend, according to Vienna’s Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
• Next ash cloud to enter Austrian air space tonight
  The next cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland will enter Austrian air space tonight (Tues/Weds), according to Vienna’s Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
• Police have suspect in burned-woman case
  Vienna police announced today (Tues) they had a suspect in the case of a Romanian prostitute a man tried to burn alive early Sunday morning.

• Young gang robs youth at knife point in Vienna
  Five youths aged 10 to 14 robbed a 14-year-old boy at knife point yesterday (Mon) evening on Siccardsburggasse in Vienna-Favoriten, police said today.
• Boy hit and killed at pedestrian crossing
  An eight-year-old school boy was struck and killed by a car at a Vienna pedestrian crossing today (Tues).
• Two million Austrians use Facebook
  More than two million Austrians use Facebook, twice as many as one year ago, it emerged today (Tues).
• Sex scandal in Vienna children homes: kids were also drug-couriers
  The children abused in Viennese children’s homes were also rented out as drug-couriers.

• Six charged for gun attack at Vienna’s Ravidass Temple
  A gang of Indians has been charged with murder, attempted murder and intent to cause GBH following an attack on a temple which left one man dead and two others seriously wounded.
• Lorry causes a traffic jam on a motorway
  A broken-down articulated lorry caused a four-kilometre-long traffic jam on the Tauern motorway (A10) near Hüttau in Salzburg’s Pongau region early this morning (Tues).
• Propane canisters explode during farmyard fire
  Several canisters containing propane gas exploded while firemen were battling a fire in a farmyard near Bad Gastein in Salzburg’s Pongau region last night (Mon)
• Police arrest two Romanian thieves
  Police arrested two Romanian men last night (Mon/Tues) who had stolen computers and testing devices from a firm in St. Kanzian am Klpeiner See in Carinthia’s Völkermarkt district.

• Cow damages police car and injures farmer
  A cow that was to be transported from a farm near Graz escaped, damagiing a police car and slightly injuring a farmer before being captured, police said yesterday (Tues).
• Kaltenbrunner isolated in Himalayan base camp
  Upper Austrian extreme mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has been isolated in her base camp in the Himalayas for one month because of bad weather, it emerged today (Mon).
• Drunk in hospital after accosting Turkish women
  A Turkish man attacked a drunk who accosted a Turkish women he was escorting in the Dresdner Straße underground station yesterday (Mon) in Vienna-Hernals.
• A good nose leads police to an indoor cannabis plantation
  The good sense of smell of a policeman on patrol yesterday (Mon) in Vienna-Hernals led police to an indoor cannabis plantation.

• Rowdy woman kicks Vienna policeman
  A rowdy woman kicked a Vienna policeman several times after he responded to a call for help from a passenger on a line 48A tram she was riding on, yesterday (Mon)
• Grandson and girlfriend rescue grandmother from burning apartment
  An 84-year-old woman has been rescued from her blazing apartment by her grandson and his girlfriend.
• University budgets to be frozen
  Austrian university budgets will be frozen, Salzburg University Vice Rector Rudolf Mosler said today.
• Evacuated apartment building declared safe for re-ocuupancy
  An apartment building at Rotenmühlgasse 55 in Vienna-Meidling evacuated yesterday (Sun) has be declared safe for re-occupancy, police said today.

• Anti-tank mine found at Vienna’s southern railway station
  Workers have found a WWII anti-tank mine at the site of Vienna’s demolished southern railway station.
• Youth sex party accusations
  Cleaners have been accused of raping institutionalised children at organized SM sex parties in Vienna, Austria.
• Same robber arrested during second robbery attempt
  The same man who robbed a Vienna Billa supermarket on Diehlgasse in Vienna-Margareten on 4 May has been arrested during a second attempt to rob it, police said today (Mon).
• Confusion about fate of Carinthian Tibet hotel project
  There is rising public confusion about the fate of the Tibet hotel project in Hüttenberg in Carinthia’s St. Veit district.

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