Jobless Austrian Hans Url almost died after he cut off his own foot and threw it in an oven so he could continue to claim unemployment benefits. The 56-year-old long term jobless man had been in a row with local job centre staff (AMS) at Mitterlabill at Feldbach in southern Austria after they told him […]
A Styrian man died in a pond near Feldbach yesterday afternoon (Tues). The 58-year-old was already dead when a doctor and paramedics arrived at the lake in Riegersburg. Witnesses told the police he swam to the middle of the public bathing pond before he drowned. Medics did not manage to resuscitate him.
An elderly paraglider was taken to a clinic after a crash landing.The 60-year-old man wanted to touch down on a football pitch in Schnifis in Vorarlbergs Feldkirch district when his glider grazed nearby trees on Sunday afternoon. He plunged to the ground from around eight metres.The paraglider was transported to a clinic in Feldkirch via […]
Styrian police said today (Thurs) a pensioner drowned in a well on Tuesday evening.Officials in Krusdorf in the district of Feldbach announced the 78-year-olds body was found by his wife. They added the elderly man had supposedly lost balance as he died instantly after plunging down eight metres.His wife told officers he had been busy […]