A 44-year-old man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a clinic for mentally deranged criminals after attacking police officers with a machete. A special unit stormed the housing estate he lived in when a neighbour rang the police for help. The 26-year-old told police in Vienna-Leopoldstadt he had been physically […]
A German hiker died while being transported into the valley after an accident. The tourist dropped down a ravine on the Schönbichler Horn Mountain in the Tyrolean district of Schwaz yesterday (Thurs). Mountain rescuers were kept from using a chopper to get him to a clinic due to bad weather conditions. The 49-year-old – who […]
A coach was kept from continuing driving for having one wheel too few on Tuesday. The Czech passengers continued their journey back home in a replacement vehicle, traffic police said today (Thurs). The driver was fined after they found out the six-wheel coach lacked a back wheel. He argued having been incapable of fixing a […]
German police and the Austrian foreign ministry are investigating after a chopped-up body found in a river in Berlin was identified as an Austrian. Investigators in the capital city of Germany want to await the results of a DNA check. However, they announced today (Weds) that a friend of Raoul Schmidhuber, 31, identified the torso […]
Two young women from Bulgaria are accused of stealing around 25,000 Euros from elderly people in Austria. The duo – who were caught in May – are in custody in Vienna, police said today (Fri). Investigators said the women aged 20 and 21 followed pensioners after watching them withdraw money at cash terminals in towns […]
A man confined to his wheelchair fell into a creek trying to avoid colliding with an oncoming cyclist. The 41-year-old man was dragged out of the water by witnesses of the incident yesterday (Weds), police in Niederndorf in Tyrol said today. Officials did not say anything about the severity of his injuries. The man – […]
Police have arrested a boozed-up man who claimed to be a police officer. The 53-year-old told two newspaper deliverymen he was a member of the Viennese police unit before he started attacking them physically yesterday (Tues). The slightly injured men followed the drunken offender to his flat when he tried to escape after the incident […]
A convicted felon on the run from prison was rearrested after he had got picked up during a traffic check, police reported today (Tues). Police in Vienna-Floridsdorf found out that the 27-year-old man had bunked from a jail a few weeks ago. They checked his ID after he had given contradictory statements about who owned […]
A crazed motorist was arrested after ploughing into a police car – in reverse gear. Police officers decided to follow the man due to his erratic driving style in Vienna-Favoriten on Wednesday evening. After the boozed-up driver finally pulled over, he put his vehicle into reverse to crash into the parked police car. The 54-year-old […]
A 30-year-old woman passed away after crashing into an oncoming car in Lower Austria yesterday evening (Thurs). The driver passed away before paramedics arrived at the scene of the accident near Herzogenburg. The driver of the other car, a 35-year-old woman, and her three children were hospitalised in St. Pölten with undisclosed injuries. Police are […]