A British soldier has been killed in a rafting accident in Austria. Austrian police said that the 22-year-old British man had come with a group of other members of the British Army from Germany to take part in the rafting at Landeck in Tirol. Austria has seen torrential rain in recent days and experts are […]
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Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old caveman found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. The body of the iceman was found frozen under the ice on the mountainous border between Austria and Italy by a hiker, sparking a bitter row between the two countries over which could […]
Man killed by cement mixer
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In Latschach near to Velden in Carinthea a fatal accident occurred yesterday as a 32 year-old was tending to a cement mixer. The man was a driver of the cement mixer and was trying to clean the pipe through which the concrete is poured onto a desired surface. A defect then caused the pipe to […]
Liquid metal spill injures worker
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A young crane operator was seriously injured in a work accident yesterday (Thurs). The 25-year-old man sustained severe injuries to his face when liquid metal spilled as colleagues tried to pour the substance from one container into another at a construction site near Lilienfeld, Lower Austria. The liquid metal had a temperature of 1,500 degrees […]
A 36-year-old Algerian will be extradited to Germany, officials in Upper Austria announced today (Fri). The man was caught after a break-in. Police in the Austrian province explained they decided to hand him over to colleagues in neighbouring Germany after finding out they had issued an international arrest warrant on him. The African is accused […]
A German worker had to be hospitalised after an accident in the province of Salzburg. The man, 41, fell five metres to the ground as he erected a crane with colleagues at a building site in Zell am See yesterday (Thurs). Doctors did not give detailed information on the kind of injuries he suffered when […]
One in five Austrian judges is at risk of suffering from burnout, a study has concluded.The survey carried out by the ARGE Burnout group and experts of the Medical University in Graz, Styria was presented today (Thurs). Researchers questioned more than 700 judges.The investigation shows that around 20 per cent are threatened by […]
Town hall clerk blames mayor for suicide
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An Upper Austrian town hall official accused a mayor of mobbing before killing himself.Weekly magazine profil reports that Gmunden city office director Robert Hametner sent an e-mail to colleagues last Thursday evening in which he made Peoples Party (ÖVP) Mayor Heinz Josef Köppl responsible for his decision to commit suicide.”Let me tell you one thing: […]
Austrian police are cooperating with their Italian colleagues in a new pilot project.Carabinieri Lorenzo Galli and Paolo de Biasi will join Austrian police officers on patrol at the Christmas markets of Innsbruck, Tyrol, during the next few weeks.The Italian policemen said today (Fri) they will try to reduce communication troubles when their fellow countrymen become […]
A Lower Austrian woman managed to keep her pregnancy a secret from her husband and work colleagues, it has emerged.The 40-year-old mother of five was found lying on her blood-soaked bed by her husband when he returned from work yesterday (Weds).The man called the police and an ambulance when he discovered the newborn in a […]