An elderly woman was freed by firemen using special cutting equipment after getting stuck in her bathroom.The 70-year-old called for help when her arm got entangled in the sliding door of her cubicle shower yesterday (Tues), police in Viennas Leopoldstadt district said.She was freed unharmed after a neighbour called the local fire brigade.
A basement in which a 75-year-old man kept his own daughter for more than 24 years as his personal sex slave could be filled with concrete.Lawyer Walter Anzböck suggested today (Weds) to pour cement into the cellar chambers of the estate in Amstetten, Lower Austria, where Josef Fritzl raped his daughter Elisabeth, 46, more than […]
A Lower Austrian farmer who was looking for a “woman to lean on” in a TV hit series is suspected of killing his girlfriend before committing suicide.Alfred Tippelreiter participated in the first series of “Bauer sucht Frau” on private channel ATV, the Austrian version of international real life TV success “Farmer Wants A Wife” in […]
A 26-year-old worker was airlifted to a hospital after he fell down a 50-metre embankment while operating a street roller yesterday afternoon (Mon).The man from Altenmarkt in Salzburgs Pongau region came off the rural road at the roadwork site in Rennweg near Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia. He sustained life-threatening injuries when he dropped down […]
More than a dozen passengers had a narrow escape when a coach was at risk of plunging down a descent and into a river yesterday (Mon).The 52-year-old driver of the vehicle came off the bendy mountain pass road in the Carinthian district of Spittal an der Drau for unclear reasons. He told the 13 passengers […]
A woman suffered serious injuries when her car was hit by a wheel in a freak traffic incident on the A1 western motorway on Sunday evening.Police in Amstetten, Lower Austria, announced today (Tues) that the driver was airlifted to a hospital after fire fighters freed her from the wrecked car. They added that the car […]
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 wheelchairs 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 […]
A woman has been arrested for trying to pinch an Austrian holidaymakers wallet.The 19-year-old man met the Nigerian in a bar on the Spanish tourism hotspot of Mallorca and called the police when she attempted to steal his money.The would-be thief was arrested. Some newspapers report today (Tues) that she is a prostitute.
Opposition leaders fear that the Austrian police force could become a “squadron of midgets” as the interior ministry plans to scrap a minimum body height rule for applicants.A spokesman for the federal interior ministry which is headed by Johanna Mikl-Leitner of the conservative Peoples Party (ÖVP) announced today (Tues) that the plan was […]
Two Germans were transferred to a clinic after a paragliding tandem flight attempt went wrong.The holidaymakers, aged 51 and 62, lost control of the glider a few minutes after taking off on a descent in a mountain range near Neustift, Tyrol, on Thursday. They fell onto the roof of a garage. The men were hospitalised […]