Four hot-air balloon passengers had a narrow escape after getting stuck in a group of trees this morning (Thurs).Fire-fighters in Lower Austrias Horn district said the balloon got entangled 10 metres in the air in a group of trees located between the towns of Wollmersdorf and Zettlitz during a failed landing attempt.None of the passengers […]
ORF bosses have banned a commercial praising a tank used by the Nazis as a “living legend”.Red-faced officials at the national broadcaster were pressed to act after hundreds of disgusted viewers called to complain about the TV ad screened last Monday offering a do-it-yourself model of the “Tiger” tank.The controversial clip by internationally […]
A controversial Catholic bishop has claimed he was “misinterpreted” after branding the Love Parade stampede “Gods punishment” but stressed he would still regard the event a “sin”.Salzburg Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun today (Mon) accused media of misinterpreting his statements made in a blog on a Catholic website last week.Laun said: “Love Parade equals sin […]
A French woman suffered fatal head and chest injuries when a bolting horse charged into her on Saturday, it has emerged.Officials in Hinterglemm, Salzburg, said today (Mon) the 73-year-old on holiday with her husband died in an ambulance on its way to a nearby clinic after the dramatic incident.Police said the 16-year-old Haflinger […]
A special commission is set to investigate after a solider shot himself in the leg yesterday (Weds).Deputy Salzburg military commander Johann Hehenberger confirmed today that a 23-year-old solider was hospitalised after a gun bullet entered his thigh in the incident which occurred at the Ramsau / Molln shooting range.Hehenberger added that a commission was set […]
A railway employee lost a leg when he was run over by a slow-moving train in Carinthia yesterday (Weds).The 52-year-old from St. Veit an der Glan was engaged in repair and maintenance work at a Weißenstein chemistry firms railway system when he failed to observe an oncoming train.Christoph Posch, a spokesman for Federal Railways ÖBB, […]
Bungling crooks were arrested after tapping the wrong kind of petrol from a parked car.The Slovakian pair aged 26 and 28 stole three satellite navigation systems, four tyres and licence plates from parked cars in northern Burgenland before heading towards the Austrian-Slovakian border on Monday.They drilled a hole into a parked cars sheathing […]
An Upper Austrian pensioner was hospitalised with smoke poisoning after an exploding battery from an electric bike caused a massive blaze in his flat yesterday (Weds).The man, 73, tried to fight the fire with blankets himself before firemen called in by a neighbour dragged him to safety. He passed out minutes later.Fire-fighters in […]
A 52-year-old hiker had to be airlifted to a clinic after being attacked by cows.The man from Hart near Graz, Styria, tried to walk past a herd of cows at the provinces Hochschwab region when the heifers trampled over him after his dog started barking at them yesterday (Weds).A crew member of the ÖAMTC rescue […]
Two people were injured when a compressed air tank exploded at a diving club in Vienna-Penzing yesterday (Tues).Authorities said today a divers right hand was shredded by the blast as he filled a compressed air tank with oxygen, adding that the man suffered serious injuries to his lower body as well.His eight-year-old grandson, who was […]