Duo in clinic after plane crash

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Two Germans have been injured after their light aircraft crashed near Mauterndorf. Police in the province of Salzburg said the pair were hospitalised after the incident this morning (Weds). They explained that the pair had been the only ones on board the Cessna light aircraft which plunged to the ground around one kilometres from the […]

Builder in clinic after five-metre fall

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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 […]

Vienna worker hospitalised after 10-metre fall

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A demolition worker is fighting for his life after plunging 10 metres to the ground yesterday morning (Weds), it was reported today. The 56-year-old man was part of a group of workers assigned to tear down a building in Vienna’s Simmering district. He was airlifted to a clinic. Officials gave no information considering his state […]

Bull knocks down farmer

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A bull will be slaughtered after he put an elderly farmer into a clinic, officials in Vorderstoder said today (Weds).The animal knocked the 60-year-old man to the ground at his farm in the town in Upper Austria’s Kirchdorf district yesterday evening (Tues). The farmer’s son, 28, managed to get clear by leaping over a fence.The […]

Hiker injured by heifer

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An Upper Austrian woman had to be hospitalised after she was attacked by a cow yesterday (Sun).The woman from Obergrünburg was hiking in the Kalkalpen national park with her husband when the animal attacked her. The 54-year-old teacher sustained a flesh wound on her left thigh. She was airlifted to a hospital in Steyr.One day […]

Ten tenants hospitalised after fire

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Several residents of an apartment complex had to be treated for smoke poisoning after a blaze broke out on the building’s ground floor yesterday afternoon (Weds).The fire raged through a laundry shop in Vienna-Margareten. It is unclear what triggered the flames which subsequently filled the hallway of the whole building with smoke. Ten residents of […]

Bull squashes farmer

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An elderly farmer has been injured by a two-year-old bull.The unconscious 72-year-old was found by his wife on Saturday morning, police in Ellmau in Tyrol said today (Mon). He was airlifted to a clinic in Kufstein where doctors attested severe internal injuries. It is unclear why the 1,000-kilo animal attacked the man.Earlier this month, a […]