Hotel Bristol renovation presses ahead as bar opens

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The luxury hotel Bristol at Kärntner Ring in Vienna (next to the State Opera) has been undergoing renovation for a year. The bar was now reopened. The lobby, reception and the restaurant will open until November. Anthony Quinn and Shakira, George Gershwin and Herbert von Karajan as well as Juan Carlos from Spain and Kofi […]

Seven injured in apartment blaze

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 Seven people have been injured in a fire in Hainburg, Austria, yesterday (Thurs) evening. The blaze began on the first floor of an apartment block, the reasons for which are not yet clear. More than 50 fire fighters came to put out the flames coming from a first floor apartment with support from 20 paramedics, […]

Duo checking leaky roof injured in three-metre plunge

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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 […]

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 […]

Sleepwalker seriously injured in second-storey fall

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A young man suffered several broken bones when he fell out of a second-floor window last night (Thurs/Fri).Roland P. opened the balcony door in the family home in Zwettl, Lower Austria, before falling over the handrail, police said today.The 21-year-old, who had never sleepwalked before, was found by his girlfriend who started looking for him […]

Woman ‘scrambled about’ before fatal fall

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A man has been arrested after claiming that his girlfriend “was clambering about” in their flat in front of the window before she plunged to her death.The 29-year-old woman died before an ambulance arrived at the housing estate in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Tues).Her boyfriend, 24, told police he had been drinking with her in their […]

Skier almost hangs himself on a cable

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A skier is in a critical state after skiing into a piste grooming machine cable on Sunday evening at the Wagrain ski area in Salzburg, police said yesterday (Mon).Günther S., 50, was skiing down to the middle lift station at about 8pm after a birthday party at the “Gipfelstadl” mountain hut when he failed to […]

Young Dutch skiers rescued by helicopter

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Two Dutch boys aged 13 and 14 were rescued by helicopter as darkness was falling yesterday (Sun) near Loser in Styria’s Liezen district.The boys were skiing off piste down to the valley floor when they became stranded at 4pm in a steep, rocky area at an elevation of 1,400 metres and called rescuers.In another incident […]