Dozens of Austrian pilgrims had a narrow escape as their coach crashed on a motorway in Croatia.Local police announced today (Thurs) no one was injured when the vehicle ploughed into a fence erected alongside a motorway near Sestanovac yesterday.Officials told the Croatian Times online newspaper that the group consisting of 47 Austrians were […]
Two men from Vienna got into a fistfight outside a hairdresser’s in western Hungary yesterday (Weds).The Austrians aged 44 and 74 quarrelled about the only vacant parking spot outside the shop in Sopron before pouncing on each other. They were temporarily arrested and questioned after the horrified hairstylist called the police.Meanwhile, police in […]
A young mother-of-two who had been missing for more than half a year was found dead in Slovakia.Police in Bratislava said today (Thurs) that a burned corpse found in the Slovakian capital recently was identified as Flora S. in a DNA sample check. The 28-year-old waitress based in Viennas Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district was reported as missing […]
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 […]
A Viennese couple may be prosecuted for attacking classmates of their daughter’s.The residents of Viennas Favoriten district confronted a group of three boys and one girl with their bullied childs accusations after the end of lessons outside their school yesterday (Tues). When the teenagers ignored their questions, the adults became violent against them. The pair […]
Around 14,000 people succumb to smoking-related diseases in Austria each year, health experts have said on yesterdays (Tues) World No Tobacco Day (WNTD).The World Health Organization (WHO) explained around 5.5 million people die from such causes all over the world a year. The international institution made aware of the life-threatening aspects of passive smoking as […]
More than one million Austrians would cycle to work if infrastructure improvements were made, a traffic research organisation has claimed.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) announced today (Weds) around 250,000 people were already using their bicycles to get to the office. The group added that up to 1.3 million would do so if decision-makers would spend […]
German GTI fans had a lucky escape after capsizing in a motorboat on a lake in Austria.The group of four men in the southern province of Carinthia to visit the annual Volkswagen (VW) Golf GTI meeting made it to the shore after their boat sank at Wörther Lake (Wörther See) yesterday evening (Tues).The […]
A young resident of Vienna-Wieden has died after slipping while having a shower.The nine-year-olds motionless body was found by her mum yesterday evening (Tues). The woman called an ambulance. Doctors managed to revive her before the child died due to severe head injuries at the citys SMZ Ost Clinic a few hours later.Meanwhile, a woman […]
Upper Austrian investigators smashed what is believed to be one of the busiest drug trafficking organisations of the country.The four suspects three men and one woman aged between 19 and 27 are accused of having dealt with heroin and marijuana worth 160,000 Euros. The illegal substances were smuggled into Austria from Eastern Europe […]