Incest monster Josef Fritzl’s house of horror is to be torn down this week.The house on the Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten, Austria, became a world-wide symbol of evil when it was revealed that perverted Fritzl had kept his daughter Elisabeth there as a sex slave for 24-years in a secret dungeon under the family home.The liquidator […]
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A 40-year-old man has been arrested for attacking the mayor of a town in Carinthia.St. Veit an der Glans Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Gerhard Mock said today (Thurs) he and a secretary suffered minor injuries in the incident outside the local town hall yesterday.”Ive been threatened with murder a few times over the phone ahead […]
A civil servant has been suspended over accusations that he has been embezzling large amounts of town hall assets for years.The man, whose name and age were withheld, faces criminal charges. He is accused of having pocketed around 100,000 Euros throughout the past three years. The losses were discovered in an internal inspection.Police in the […]
A 40-year-old woman suffered serious burns when she lighted a cigarette after filling a basin with petrol.The housewife was rushed to a clinic after the incident at her home in the Styrian spa town of Bad Waltersdorf (Tues).Meanwhile a 47-year-old man died three days after suffering serious burns when a petrol can exploded in woodland […]
Paraglider in clinic after crash
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A German paraglider was hospitalised after crashing against a rock face in Vorarlberg at the weekend.Police in the town of Au said today (Mon) that the man suffered serious injuries in the accident which occurred on Saturday afternoon. The resident of Rettenberg in the German state of Bavaria was transferred to a local hospital via […]
WWII bomb found in river
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An aerial bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was defused and removed in less than 30 minutes in a town in Upper Austria yesterday (Tues).Explosives experts decided to evacuate the surrounding area within 400 metres after the World War Two (WWII) era bomb was discovered in the Enns River in Steyr.A road and a railway line […]
Body of elderly woman found in river
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Police are investigating after the corpse of a 79-year-old woman was found in a creek in Salzburg.The pensioners body was fished out of a stream in the town of Thalgau around 9am this morning. Local officials said the woman, who was wearing just a nightgown, lived with several relatives nearby. They added it was still […]
Vienna boy hit by lorry
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A young boy had to be hospitalised after he was hit by a lorry in Vienna yesterday (Thurs).The nine-year-old child was crossing the road in the citys Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district when an oncoming truck knocked him to the ground. He was transferred to a clinic with undisclosed injuries.The driver told police that his view was blocked […]
Würth Austria had record year
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Würth Austria saw its highest ever turnover in 2010.The company said today (Fri) that it achieved a turnover of 142 million Euros in 2010, up by five per cent year on year the biggest increase since it started doing business in 1962.Würth Austria, which is based in the Lower Austrian town of Böheimkirchen, said […]
A confused elderly man tried to find his way home in a German town almost 400 kilometres from his Austrian hometown, it has been reported.Newspapers in Bavaria reported yesterday (Mon) that the 81-year-old from Vienna had wandered around a retirement home in Breitbrunn at the Ammer Lake for more than three hours on Saturday before […]