An OAP was taken to hospital with smoke poisoning after her 30-year-old hair dryer burst into flames in Leonding, Austria. The 77-year-old, told paramedics: “I switched it on but it didn’t work so I left it. “I guess I must have forgotten to switch it off again though, because the next thing I knew the […]
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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 […]
A blaze which killed two young children was started by their mother, it has emerged.Enrico, 8, and his six-year-old sister Esther were killed by the fire in the family home in the Styrian town of Judenburg yesterday (Tues).Now local police have announced that their mother Esther F. admitted having caused the fire which caused substantial […]