The manslaughter case in Austria over the death of a British soldier drowned during a rafting accident has ended with the raft guide accused of negligence being acquitted. Private John Lomas, of the Royal Logistics Corps, was with comrades in Tirol when his inflatable raft boat capsized on June 21. Three rafts, carrying a total […]
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A hotheaded Hungarian got the chance to cool off after threatening to kill his girlfriend and her sister when he jumped into the river Salzach and tried to swim away in order to escape police. But with the temperature in the river just under 12 degrees the 41-year-old Hungarian was soon in difficulties and had […]
Probe into soldiers rafting death
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Austrian accident investigators have started carrying out tests on the raft that capsized leaving a British soldier dead after an accident on the Inn river last week. The 22-year-old man, who has not been named, was on armed services ‘adventurous training’ exercise and although the river Inn which they were travelling along had been heavily […]
Judges ordered bungling police to drop a trout poaching case in Kufstein, Austria, after hearing that the defendant had been allowed to eat the only evidence. Dad Alexander Donninger, 42, had hooked a deep frozen trout he’d bought from a supermarket on a fishing rod and dangled it in a river so his seven-tear-old twins […]
German dad Alexander Donninger and his wife Stefanie are facing jail after they were accused of poaching when they hung a deep frozen fish on their children’s fishing line to give them a bit of fun while on holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. The couple were with their twins Enya and Arthur aged seven and […]
Rappenlochschlucht gorge to be reopened
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A famous steep sided river valley known as the Rappenlochschlucht in Austria is set to be reopened after a massive rockfall closed it in 2011. The Austrian town of Dornbirn has now agreed to invest between 300,000 and 500,000 Euros in the project to put a tunnel along the side of the river that is […]
Pensioners’ car plunges into creek
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Two elderly women were saved from drowning after a car crash yesterday morning (Thurs). The car of the friends, both aged 72, came off the road for reasons unknown and fell into the Traisen River near Schrambach in Lower Austria. They failed to get out of the vehicle which quickly filled with water. Road maintenance […]
German kayaker hospitalised
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A German holidaymaker had to be hospitalised after a kayaking accident.The 25-year-old was rescued by friends after capsizing in a river in the Tyrolean district of Reutte yesterday (Sun). He was unconscious when an ambulance arrived to take him to a clinic.The mans pals said his head was underwater for some minutes before they eventually […]
Courageous citizens have rescued a pensioner from a raging river.The 65-year-old man lost his balance and fell over when he bent down to stroke his dog as he took the canine for a stroll along the Salzach River in the city of Salzburg yesterday afternoon (Tues).Three people did not hesitate to leap into the ice-cold […]
The discovery of a wartime hand grenade caused panic in Vienna yesterday (Tues).Workers called the police after unearthing the World War Two era grenade during excavation activities at a building site in Landstraße district yesterday morning, police in the capital announced today.Explosives experts of the federal interior ministry, who were alerted by police, secured the […]