Hut manager saves German skier’s life

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A woman on her way home from the mountain hut she was managing saved a 71-year-old German skier’s life yesterday (Thurs) near Kühtai, Tyrol.The man had fallen into deep snow while skiing off-piste and could not get up. The woman saw him, called rescuers and began to dig him out.An emergency doctor who arrived at […]

Pole gets three years for rape and robberies

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A criminal court in Krems, Lower Austria, today (Thurs) sentenced a Polish man to three years in prison for the rape of a 66-year-old woman and several robberies.It emerged in court that the 42-year old Pole had confessed after his arrest in Lower Austria’s Waldviertel area in November 2009.Judge Andrea Hüttl ordered the unemployed defendant […]