Arrests in Ethiopia murder case

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Two arrests have been made over the murder of an Austrian national murdered in Ethiopia as they took part in a tour of the Nile. The 27-year-old tourist from Upper Austria was robbed and murdered whilst holidaying in Ethiopia last week. Now police in Ethiopia have arrested two suspects in the case. The two suspects […]

Artist sparks police murder hunt

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An Austrian concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she’d taken of of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers. Sigrid Fleckseder and partner Christian Thomas had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a […]

Teen hides WWII grenade in bedroom

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A teenager kept a World War Two grenade in his bedroom for more than a year, it has emerged.Police in Kuchl, Salzburg, said today (Mon) the 16-year-old’s father informed them he had discovered the weapon under piles of clothing and comic books in a wardrobe when cleaning up his son’s messy bedroom on the weekend.The […]

Peek & Cloppenburg to continue expanding in Austria

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Family-owned German clothing chain Peek & Cloppenburg (P&C) said today (Weds) it would continue expanding in Austria.The firm recently opened a 5,000 square metre store at the Tyrol shopping centre in Innsbruck and today opened a 6,700 square metre store at Shopping City Süd (SCS) in Vienna-Vösendorf. P&C is planning to open one at Vienna’s […]