Accident
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Former goalkeeper Manninger dies in Austria after car struck by train
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Alexander Manninger, who played for Austria at Euro 2008, died on Thursday after his car was hit by a train, his former club Red Bull Salzburg said.
Austrian farmer ordered to pay German widower over fatal cow attack
An Austrian farmer has been ordered to pay €490,000 ($555,000) in compensation to the widower of a woman who was trampled to death by a herd of his cows in 2014.
One killed, 22 injured in Austrian train collision
Two passenger trains collided Monday in central Austria, killing one person and injuring 22 others, the police told AFP.
Five dead after climbing accident in Austrian Alps
Five people were killed and a sixth seriously injured after a climbing accident Sunday morning in the Austrian Alps, rescue services said.
Two Austrians missing after massive Swiss landslide
German, Austrian and Swiss citizens are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages.
French Alps: Austrian falls to death on Mont Blanc
An Austrian climber fell some 200 metres (650 feet) to his death Saturday while descending Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest mountain, rescuers said.
Two dead after crash on Italy-Austria rail line
Two railway maintenance workers died and three others were injured in an overnight accident that temporarily closed a ten-kilometre (six-mile) section of Italy's main rail line to Austria.
Scottish man killed by high-speed train in Vienna
A 48-year-old man from Edinburgh was tragically hit and killed by an Austrian Intercity train as he waited on the platform at Grillgasse station in Vienna’s Simmering district.
Father-of-two dies after crashing into snowmobile in Tyrol
A German tourist has been killed by a snow groomer at Austria’s Silvretta Arena ski resort in Tyrol.
Skier falls from chairlift at Austrian resort onto a car below
A skier who fell seven metres from a ski-lift at the Stuhleck ski resort in Semmering on Monday is lucky to be alive, after a car that happened to be driving underneath the lift broke her fall.
Mother failed to call for help after toddler scalded himself with boiling water
An Austrian woman failed to give her young child any first aid and didn’t call a doctor or an ambulance after he received life threatening burns after being scalded by a pot of boiling water.
13-year-old boy miraculously survives 41 minutes underwater
Doctors in Vienna have revealed how they were able to save the life of a 13-year-old boy who was believed to have drowned after he spent 41 minutes at the bottom of a lake.
Pedestrians catch child after balcony fall
A five-year-old girl from Innsbruck miraculously survived a ten-metre fall from a roof terrace with no serious injuries - thanks to two quick-thinking pedestrians who saw her hanging from the balcony shortly before she fell, and turned their jackets into an improvised trampoline with which to catch her.
Hungarian woman crushed by snowcat piste machine
A young Hungarian woman has died after being crushed by a snowcat piste machine on the Dobratsch mountain in Carinthia in southern Austria.
Woman's legs reattached after threshing machine horror
A young woman whose legs were severed in an accident involving a threshing machine has had her limbs reattached in a long and difficult operation.
Swiss teenager dies after fall whilst hiking in Austria
A 14-year-old Swiss girl has died whilst hiking in Austria's mountainous western state of Vorarlberg.
19-year-old badly injured in crane support accident
A 19-year-old woman has been seriously injured after a crane support slipped off a truck and hit her in the village of Kritzendorf, just outside Vienna.
Taiwanese tourist rescued from Austrian mountain via WhatsApp
A 39-year-old tourist from Taiwan who got lost on Austria’s Dachstein mountain was rescued after sending a friend in Hong Kong images of her location via WhatsApp.
Explosion on Bali boat kills Austrian woman
An explosion on a tourist boat off the Indonesian island of Bali has killed two women, one of whom is Austrian, and injured at least 14 other people.
Ten injured after platform collapses in Austria
Nine children and one adult have been injured in Austria after a platform they were standing on in a farm collapsed underneath them.
Dead beauty queen's parents want closure
The family of a former Miss Austria who died after falling down a mountain while jogging in her home state of Tyrol in October have said they are still waiting for answers as to what caused her mysterious accident.
Six-year-old sued for skiing accident
A six-year-old girl was accused in an Austrian court of causing a skiing accident in which a woman, who is suing her for damages, was seriously hurt.
Beauty contestant barred over 'Taiwan' sash
A beauty contestant from Taiwan has been suspended from an international pageant in Austria after Beijing objected to the sash she was wearing, the woman and the government in Taipei said.