Austrian police say that one of the two attractive young teenage girls who fled the country to go to Syria to fight on the side of Islamic rebels may have been killed. Last week it was revealed that the girls’ flight from their families in the Austrian capital Vienna to Syria had made them an […]
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Austrian police have arrested two butchers from the Czech Republic who worked in a meat packaging plant on the border who used to sneak out into the car park at the back of their firm and throw meat over the fence where accomplices would load into the car and sell it across the border to […]
A vet from the city of Krems in Lower Austria has fulfilled a lifelong ambition of walking from Mexico to Canada. Sabine Schroll shut up shop in her veterinary practice and completed the 4,300 kilometre trek in six months. The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from the U.S. border with Mexico all the way to British […]
An Austrian-flagged sailing boat has been seized in southern Italy when coastal guards discovered more than two dozen refugees on board. Twenty-five asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq were found on the vessel which sailed under Austrian flag. The refugees were taken to a local centre for asylum seekers, officials in the city of […]
A man from Ukraine was arrested after police found more than 400 cigarette cartons in his car. The 30-year-old was stopped during in a traffic check on the A2 southern motorway in Villach-Land district, Carinthia, near the Austrian border with Italy yesterday evening (Weds). He was put in custody after 425 cigarette cartons were discovered […]
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 […]
A group of Palestinian refugees detained in Romania said they were trying to reach Austria.Romanian border police put the five men aged between 23 and 25 into custody after they illegally crossed the border into Serbia near Jimbolia on Wednesday evening.Officials told the Romanian Times newspaper that the group planned to travel to Austria to […]
Autopsy as Turk trucker found dead
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An autopsy has been ordered after the body of a truck driver was found on the Austrian-Hungarian border.Police in the Burgenland border town of Nickelsdorf said today (Fri) the 45-year-old Turkish mans body was discovered by colleagues who forcefully opened his trucks cabin after two days at a motorway rest stop yesterday.The dead driver and […]
Two Indian citizens have been found hiding under the seats of the international Bucharest Vienna train by Romanian border police.The Romanian Times reports that the two men, aged 22 and 27, were discovered at the Romanian Hungarian border in Curtici in Romanias Arad county, where they told border guards they were heading for […]
A Bulgarian tried to smuggle six kangaroos and more than 50 birds from the Netherlands into his homeland, Austrian border officials have revealed.Officials in Nickelsdorf, Burgenland, on the Austrian-Hungarian border said today (Fri) they stopped the lorry during a traffic check campaign yesterday.”The man told us he bought the six kangaroos and 52 rare birds […]