A Lower Austrian farmer has vowed not to pay a fine of 60 Euros after allegedly breaking the speed limit on his tractor.Andreas K. from Schönberg am Kamp told newspapers today (Tues) he received a postal notification saying a vehicle registered under the licence plate of his tractor was caught driving 155 kilometres per […]
Service on an underground train route in Vienna came to a halt for half an hour yesterday evening (Mon) after passengers said they smelt smoke.Public transport agency Wiener Linien decided to stop operations on the U3 line after several commuters told staff at stations they smelt smoke and fire while on U-Bahn trains driving through […]
Police in the Austrian-Italian border region are investigating after finding cigarettes worth 7,000 Euros in an abandoned car.Officials in the southern province of Carinthia said today (Tues) that police officers discovered 248 cartons of cigarettes in a vehicle parked at a motorway rest stop car park near Völkermarkt.The tobacco products were confiscated after a check […]
Serial vending machine thief nabbed
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A Romanian man suspected of stealing coffee machines worth tens of thousands of Euros in Austria has been arrested in his homeland.Daniel D. was caught in the city of Iasi in north-eastern Romania, according to the Romanian Times online newspaper. Austrian authorities issued a European arrest warrant on his name after finding out that he […]
An elderly Austrian lost almost 100,000 Euros in an internet scam, it has emerged.Police in Salzburg said today (Mon) that the 77-year-old man got in touch with them yesterday after having transferred more than 90,000 Euros to a bank account.The pensioner told officers that he was promised an undisclosed amount of money in an e-mail […]
DVD player causes hotel blaze
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An overheated DVD player caught fire in a hotel room last night (Sun).The manager of the resort in Kirchberg near Kitzbühel in Tyrol suffered minor injuries when he threw burning mattresses from the balcony. A neighbour had informed him about the smoke coming out of a window.Fire-fighters found out that an overheated DVD player started […]
Robbers blow up cash machine
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Criminals may have escaped with thousands of Euros after blasting a cash terminal in Vienna-Favoriten this morning (Mon).Authorities in the federal capital said today that a woman living nearby called the police after she was woken up by the blast at around 3am. Policemen found the entrance of the Raiffeisen branch smashed and the cash […]
State prosecutors have submitted a bill of indictment over a murder in which a student stabbed his ex-girlfriend 200 times.Prosecutors in Vienna said yesterday (Thurs) they will ask judges to detain Philipp K. in an institution for deranged criminals. The 22-year-old is accused of killing his former girlfriend Stefanie P. by stabbing her around 200 […]
Murder suspect dies in river
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The body of a Bosnian man suspected of clubbing his wife to death with an iron pole five days ago has been found.Miladin G.s corpse was discovered behind the wheel of his Audi Q5 yesterday (Thurs). The car was salvaged from the Salzach River just a few hundred metres from the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf […]
Two people were hospitalised after falling from a roof this morning (Fri).Police in St. Georgen near Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria said a 32-year-old woman and a 47-year-old male acquaintance had climbed up on the roof to examine a leaky spot.The woman was dragged down by the man after he lost his balance and slid down […]