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 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 After the tragic drowning of a 17-year-old at Austria’s dance music Lake Festival, organisers have forbidden festival goers to swim and have increased security patrols. https://www.thelocal.at/20150821/swim-ban-after-lake-festival-drowning Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:43:03 +0200 swim-ban-after-lake-festival-drowning A 19-year-old woman from Upper Austria has drowned in Traunsee lake after drinking and then going for a late night swim on Saturday. Her 20-year-old male companion failed to call for help and went home. https://www.thelocal.at/20150714/19-year-old-drowns-after-drinking-and-swimming Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:12:13 +0200 19-year-old-drowns-after-drinking-and-swimming According to a report on a music web site, the Swedish industrial rock band DEATHSTARS narrowly avoided a serious tragedy in the early hours of Saturday morning when the tour bus in which they were traveling caught fire in the Austrian alps. https://www.thelocal.at/20141025/swedish-rockers-avoid-tragedy-in-bus-fire Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:52:00 +0200 swedish-rockers-avoid-tragedy-in-bus-fire A 77-year-old German climber fell 80 metres to his death in an Alpine ravine on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140917/climber-77-falls-80-metres-to-his-death Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:24:30 +0200 climber-77-falls-80-metres-to-his-death A 40-year-old German hiker who fell around 100 metres while hiking in steep terrain in Tyrol was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. https://www.thelocal.at/20140731/german-hiker-seriously-injured-in-mountain-fall Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:30:37 +0200 german-hiker-seriously-injured-in-mountain-fall A 13-year-old boy was seriously injured in a jet-ski race on a quarry lake in Pöchlarn, near Melk on Sunday morning. https://www.thelocal.at/20140713/boy-seriously-injured-in-boating-accident Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:20:00 +0200 boy-seriously-injured-in-boating-accident