https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20260416/former-goalkeeper-manninger-dies-in-austria-after-car-struck-by-train Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:24:50 +0200 former-goalkeeper-manninger-dies-in-austria-after-car-struck-by-train 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20190223/austrian-farmer-ordered-to-pay-german-widower-over-fatal-cow-attack Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:28:39 +0100 austrian-farmer-ordered-to-pay-german-widower-over-fatal-cow-attack Two passenger trains collided Monday in central Austria, killing one person and injuring 22 others, the police told AFP. https://www.thelocal.at/20180212/one-killed-22-injured-in-austrian-train-collision Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:12:53 +0100 one-killed-22-injured-in-austrian-train-collision Five people were killed and a sixth seriously injured after a climbing accident Sunday morning in the Austrian Alps, rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.at/20170827/five-dead-after-climbing-accident-in-austrian-alps Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:15:43 +0200 five-dead-after-climbing-accident-in-austrian-alps German, Austrian and Swiss citizens are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages. https://www.thelocal.at/20170824/two-austrians-missing-after-massive-swiss-landslide Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:57:39 +0200 two-austrians-missing-after-massive-swiss-landslide An Austrian climber fell some 200 metres (650 feet) to his death Saturday while descending Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest mountain, rescuers said. https://www.thelocal.at/20170723/french-alps-austrian-falls-to-death-on-mont-blanc Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:54:07 +0200 french-alps-austrian-falls-to-death-on-mont-blanc 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170426/two-dead-after-crash-on-italy-austria-rail-ine Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:06:49 +0200 two-dead-after-crash-on-italy-austria-rail-ine 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170224/scottish-man-killed-by-high-speed-train-in-vienna Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:33:28 +0100 scottish-man-killed-by-high-speed-train-in-vienna A German tourist has been killed by a snow groomer at Austria’s Silvretta Arena ski resort in Tyrol. https://www.thelocal.at/20170217/father-of-two-dies-after-crashing-into-snowmobile-in-tyrol Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:51:44 +0100 father-of-two-dies-after-crashing-into-snowmobile-in-tyrol 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170124/skier-falls-from-chairlift-at-austrian-resort-onto-a-car-below Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:56:06 +0100 skier-falls-from-chairlift-at-austrian-resort-onto-a-car-below 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20170112/austria-mother-failed-to-call-for-help-after-toddler-scalded-with-boiling-water Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:42:23 +0100 austria-mother-failed-to-call-for-help-after-toddler-scalded-with-boiling-water 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20161220/13-year-old-boy-miraculously-survives-41-minutes-underwater Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:20:18 +0100 13-year-old-boy-miraculously-survives-41-minutes-underwater 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20161121/austria-child-saved-from-deadly-fall-by-pedestrians Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:28:20 +0100 austria-child-saved-from-deadly-fall-by-pedestrians A young Hungarian woman has died after being crushed by a snowcat piste machine on the Dobratsch mountain in Carinthia in southern Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20161021/hungarian-woman-crushed-by-snowcat-piste-machine Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:09:48 +0200 hungarian-woman-crushed-by-snowcat-piste-machine 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20161013/womans-legs-reattached-after-threshing-machine-horror Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:44:46 +0200 womans-legs-reattached-after-threshing-machine-horror A 14-year-old Swiss girl has died whilst hiking in Austria's mountainous western state of Vorarlberg. https://www.thelocal.at/20161007/swiss-teenager-dies-after-fall-whilst-hiking-in-austria Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:30:16 +0200 swiss-teenager-dies-after-fall-whilst-hiking-in-austria 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20161004/19-year-old-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-crane-support Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:21:56 +0200 19-year-old-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-crane-support 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160922/taiwanese-tourist-rescued-from-austrian-mountain-via-whatsapp Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:08:28 +0200 taiwanese-tourist-rescued-from-austrian-mountain-via-whatsapp 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. https://www.thelocal.at/20160915/explosion-on-boat-kills-austrian-tourist Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:43:26 +0200 explosion-on-boat-kills-austrian-tourist Nine children and one adult have been injured in Austria after a platform they were standing on in a farm collapsed underneath them. https://www.thelocal.at/20160824/ten-injured-after-platform-collapses-in-austria Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:09:39 +0200 ten-injured-after-platform-collapses-in-austria