A group of Palestinian refugees detained in Romania said they were trying to reach Austria.Romanian border police put the five men aged between 23 and 25 into custody after they illegally crossed the border into Serbia near Jimbolia on Wednesday evening.Officials told the Romanian Times newspaper that the group planned to travel to Austria to […]
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Police take man’s 27 dogs
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Police raided a house after an anonymous local reported its owner for keeping 27 dogs in poor conditions.Officials in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria, said today (Weds) the animals were well-nourished, but added that the conditions they were kept in were rated as inappropriate by animal experts from a nearby dog shelter.Authorities are now […]
Woman found living with 49 dogs
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A woman faces charges for torturing animals after police found her living with 49 dogs.Police and animal experts visited 36-year-old Margit P., who runs a charity organisation for puppies, yesterday (Tues) after neighbours informed officials of the horrific conditions the dogs were forced to live in at her estate in Kienings near Zwettl in Lower […]
Red-faced police in Salzburg have admitted a speed camera has flashed every driver regardless of the speed they were going for several hours.Motorway officials announced today (Weds) a radar trap took a picture of every car going on the A10 Tauern motorway on Monday for four hours due to a technical malfunction.Autobahn workers were eventually […]
Vorarlberg’s MH Elektrotechnik goes bust
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An Altach-based electrical engineering company has asked officials to start bankruptcy proceedings in a bid to continue doing business after having its finances restored.The Federal Creditors Protection Association (KSV 1870) announced today (Weds) that authorities in the province of Vorarlberg started checking the finances of MH Elektrotechnik GmbH which has debts of around 1.6 million […]
More and more teenagers are consuming bathing salts to get high, police officials have warned.Hermann Feldbacher, a drug expert at the Upper Austrian police department, said today (Fri): “There is a trend for an increasing number of very young addicts to buy bathing salts, incense sticks and other cheap products.”Speaking to Viennese newspaper Heute, Feldbacher […]
Steel joist theft reported
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Plucky thieves made off with steel girders weighing almost 30 tons, it has been revealed.Officials in Eggelsberg, Upper Austria, said today (Thurs) that 14 stainless steel joists each weighing two tons disappeared from a local companys indoor storage site during the night.The thieves are suspected of lifting the objects up with a special crane truck […]
A lawyer and a journalist have been reported for “unauthorised communication with a prisoner” after the publication of an interview with incest dad Josef Fritzl.A reporter from German newspaper Bild spoke to the 75-year-old at Stein prison in Krems, Lower Austria, last week. The conversation has been quoted by newspapers all over the world after […]
Doctors remove wrong kidney
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Surgeons removed a cancer sufferers healthy kidney, it has emerged.Klinikum Klagenfurt officials admitted today (Thurs) that doctors removed the wrong organ when they were meant to take out the affected kidney in surgery earlier this week.Authorities claimed the mix-up did not occur due to overburdened staff doing too much overtime. They added a pathologist informed […]
Snow safety masts damaged
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Police in Upper Austria are investigating after dozens of roadside masts were destroyed at the weekend.Officials in Meggenhofen near Grieskirchen said today (Tues) the masts set up along the road as snow is expected to fall shortly were ripped out of the ground or cracked into pieces.The amount of damages has not yet […]