Vole hunter shoots himself in the hand

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A Carinthian man suffered serious injuries when he shot himself with a metal bolt as he tried to set up a vole trap in his garden on Sunday.Police in Völkermarkt said yesterday (Mon) the bolt slashed open the 53-year-old’s right hand when he tried to install the trap.The man is recovering in Klagenfurt’s UKH clinic.

Warehouse blaze causes €300,000 in damages

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A fire at a wood warehouse in Bad Eisenkappel in Carinthia’s Völkermarkt district early this morning (Weds) caused 300,000 Euros in damages, police said.The fire, which broke out for as yet unknown reasons shortly after midnight, consumed 200 cubic metres of wood. Six fire companies kept the fire from spreading to nearby buildings.Police said no […]