Train severs railway worker’s leg

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A railway employee lost a leg when he was run over by a slow-moving train in Carinthia yesterday (Weds).The 52-year-old from St. Veit an der Glan was engaged in repair and maintenance work at a Weißenstein chemistry firm’s railway system when he failed to observe an oncoming train.Christoph Posch, a spokesman for Federal Railways ÖBB, […]

Jovanovic leaves Rapid

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Milan Jovanovic has left Rapid Vienna after just one year with the 32-time league champions.Rapid bosses said today (Weds) they had mutually agreed with the Montenegrin centre-back to end the contract. Jovanovic, 27, joined the team coached by Peter Pacult on a free transfer from Russian club Spartak Nalchik last summer. The national team player […]

Police investigate leg surgery mix-up

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Tyrolean crime investigators have began investigating surgeons who amputated a woman’s healthy leg by mistake before removing her other one.It emerged last week that bungling doctors amputated the woman’s healthy leg after she visited the clinic because of a serious vascular dysfunction. Surgeons were then forced to remove the diseased leg after realising their mistake.Local […]

Surgeons amputate wrong leg

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Bungling doctors performing delicate surgery to remove a woman’s leg first amputated the wrong one and then, realising their mistake, amputated the other, it has been revealed today (Fri).The 90-year-old woman had been rushed to St. Johann hospital in Tyrol after suffering from a serious vascular dysfunction. But after carrying out surgery to remove the […]

Sick teen injured in 15-metre fall en route to loo

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A Lower Austrian teenager broke his leg when he fell 15 metres out of a window he had opened because he felt sick.Officials in Klosterneuburg said today (Thurs) Christian V. had left his classroom at the BR/BRG Buchbergergasse to go to the toilet. On his way there, he opened a window in the hallway for […]