Austrian police are hunting a sweet-toothed lorry driver who drove up to a factory at Bludenz in Vorarlberg and collected 18 tonnes of chocolate and then vanished. According to the logistics firm that charted the lorry from Chechnya the load had been collected by a lorry driver using fake paperwork to loaded 33 pallets of […]
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Sniper haunts Vienna
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Viennese police have said a sniper is on the loose. Investigators reportedly suspect one person to be behind the various offences although they took place in three different districts of the city in the past days. Ten people were injured when they were hit by bullets fired with an air-powered weapon. Officials asked witnesses and […]
Bathers save collapsed man’s life
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An elderly man from Lower Austria is recovering in hospital after suffering a circulatory collapse while bathing in a lake in Burgenland yesterday afternoon (Sun). The 61-year-old was dragged out of the pond by witnesses, police in Ritzing said today. A doctor who happened to be among the bathers managed to resuscitate the man who […]
Taxi robber arrested in Vienna
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A 29-year-old man was caught shortly after he broke into three parked taxis.The felon – who was looking for cash and valuables – was nabbed thanks to information by witnesses, police in Vienna-Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus said today (Weds) about the incident on Monday night.Earlier this month a 25-year-old woman and a man, 36 were arrested […]