Crime
Seven years' prison for rape of daughter
An Austrian resident was today sentenced to seven years in prison, for allegedly raping his daughter a total of 1370 times.
Courier leaves four kg of gold on doorstep
A courier company responsible for the safe delivery of a package sent from Graz to Pforzheim in Germany was left red-faced when their driver left the package on the doorstep.
Armoured van robbed in front of bank
Two robbers attacked an armoured van that was transporting money to a bank in Upper Austria on Monday morning, and made off with the cash.
Young mother killed by husband
A 21-year-old woman has been murdered in an apartment in Klagenfurt-Waidmannsdorf. The suspect is her husband, a 33-year-old Bosnian.
Search on for body parts after grisly murder
Police are searching for the body parts of a 54-year-old Styrian man, allegedly murdered and hacked to pieces by two employees of Deniz bank in Graz.
Poacher's suspected murder weapon found
Eight months after poacher Alois Huber's deadly shooting spree in the Lower Austrian town of Annaberg, a semi-automatic assault rifle has been discovered in nearby Lassingbach stream.
Cleaners find dead baby in Munich train toilet
Police have launched a murder investigation after cleaners found the body of a newborn baby in the toilet of an Austrian Railways train in Munich.
Hundreds of stolen car parts seized
The SOKO KFZ (Special Commission for cars) has seized 385 stolen engines, 254 vehicle parts and two disassembled luxury vehicles with a value of more than €10 million, from an organization calling itself motorenprofi.at in Styria.
Woman gives Facebook fraudster €7,600
A Styrian woman who thought she was helping out a Facebook friend ended up losing more than 7,600 euros to a suspected Nigerian scammer.