Stray bullet shuts down automatic railway operations

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Police have said an errant shot during a pheasant hunt could have caused a technical failure in railway operations.Officials in Fehring, Styria, said today (Mon) they had investigated the local railway line’s guarded barriers after a breakdown over the weekend. They said a switchbox went out of order due to what seems to be a […]

Hunter seriously injured by ‘friendly fire’

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A 48-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot by another hunter during a hare hunt in Upper Austria on Saturday.The hunter from Mistelbach in Lower Austria was hospitalised in Linz after the incident at the hunting outing near Vorderweißenbach in Upper Austria’s Urfahr-Umgebung district.He underwent emergency surgery on the same day […]