Brit girl seriously injured in Austrian tree plunge

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A 10-year-old British girl is in a serious condition in hospital in Graz in the Austrian province of Styria after failing from a tree. The youngster was on holiday visiting relatives in Nitscha, Austria when she fell four metres from the tree in a children’s playground in a local restaurant. She was airlifted to hospital […]

Xmas trees officialy on sale in Vienna from today

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The official start to the Christmas tree selling season begins today in Vienna. Across the capital there are 340 official Christmas tree selling locations selling trees imported from all over the country and despite a late frost damaging many trees – sellers have pledged to keep costs down. Anybody looking to buy a Christmas tree […]

Wheelchair-bound tourist injured in cliff fall

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A paraplegic woman is recovering after plunging down a steep embankment.The 60-year-old holidaymaker from Germany sustained multiple injuries when she fell down an eight-metre decent after one of her electric wheelchair’s wheels got stuck between tree roots on Sunday morning.Police in Unken, Salzburg, said today (Tues) the woman was rescued by a mountain rescue team […]

Serb sisters killed in car crash

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Two young women died after hitting a tree.Police in Kundl, Tyrol, said the Serbian sisters aged 16 and 20 perished instantly when their car came off the road and crashed into a tree this morning (Thurs). It is unclear whether the older of the women was speeding.A 15-year-old friend of the killed sisters survived the […]

Driver escapes severe accident almost unharmed

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A motorist got away with minor injuries when he crashed against a tree yesterday afternoon (Thurs).The 34-year-old came off a street near Sieghartskirchen in Lower Austria’s Tulln district before ploughing into a roadside tree. His car was wrecked in the accident. The man was hospitalised with slight injuries. The motorist was not drunk, but police […]

Teen skier hospitalised after ravine plunge

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A teenage skier was hospitalised after crashing down a 20-metre embankment.The 16-year-old holidaymaker from Bahlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg was airlifted to a clinic in Feldkirch after coming off groomed slopes in the winter sport resort of Damüls yesterday afternoon (Thurs).One day earlier, a 37-year-old skier from the Netherlands died after he hit […]

Dutch skier dies after hitting tree

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A Dutch holidaymaker died after coming off a skiing slope and crashing against a tree.The 37-year-old died before a team of paramedics reached the scene, according to police in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Salzburg. The man died of serious internal injuries and multiple fractures in the incident which occurred yesterday morning (Weds).The tourist has been the 15th person […]

Firemen free kid from tree

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A four-year-old boy had to be rescued by fire-fighters after he had climbed up an oak tree in St. Marien near Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs).The kid cried for help after his foot got stuck in a forked branch. His worried mum called firemen who cut off one branch to free the child.The boy was […]

Electrician killed by falling tree

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A Lower Austrian worker died after he was hit by a falling tree yesterday (Weds).The 40-year-old slipped and fell over on the sloping area in a forest near Schwarzenbach. The man was then hit by the beech tree that he had just cut down.The electrician was working on the family-owned estate with his brother when […]

Paraglider dies after hitting rocks

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A 31-year-old paraglider died instantly after crashing against a rock face yesterday (Thurs).The man from Linz, Upper Austria, was paragliding in a mountainous area in the Styrian district of Liezen. He was already dead when a helicopter rescue team discovered him shortly after the incident around 3pm.Only last week, a 35-year-old Tyrolean paraglider was killed […]