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 A 55-year-old man has been arrested in Vienna, on suspicion of deliberately causing a gas explosion in a residential building in the 17th district in which one person died. https://www.thelocal.at/20170127/tenant-arrested-on-suspicion-of-causing-deadly-explosion Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:45:06 +0100 tenant-arrested-on-suspicion-of-causing-deadly-explosion One person is reported to have died and three other people have been seriously injured in a gas explosion in a residential building on Vienna’s Hernalser Hauptstrasse, in the 17th district. https://www.thelocal.at/20170126/four-seriously-injured-in-gas-explosion-in-viennas-17th-district Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:47:31 +0100 four-seriously-injured-in-gas-explosion-in-viennas-17th-district A wedding party in Austria ended abruptly after a guest was handed a gas-filled balloon that then exploded, leaving him with serious injuries. https://www.thelocal.at/20160418/guest-hospitalised-after-wedding-trick-goes-wrong Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:37:45 +0200 guest-hospitalised-after-wedding-trick-goes-wrong A Slovenian woman needed hospital treatment for burn injuries Tuesday after an explosion in a farm toilet believed to have been caused by a build-up of methane, police said. https://www.thelocal.at/20150915/woman-hurt-by-exploding-toilet Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:55:10 +0200 woman-hurt-by-exploding-toilet Police in Styria have found an old chicken shed packed to the rafters with illegal explosives after worried neighbours alerted them, hoping to prevent another tragedy similar to one which killed a father and son on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141120/police-find-chicken-shed-packed-with-illegal-fireworks Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:45:00 +0100 police-find-chicken-shed-packed-with-illegal-fireworks Update: A father and son with a keen interest in explosives have died in what appears to be a tragic accident after they blew up a building in southern Styria on Monday evening. https://www.thelocal.at/20141117/explosive-passion-goes-tragically-wrong Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:55:00 +0100 explosive-passion-goes-tragically-wrong Around 6 p.m. on Thursday evening, a gas explosion ripped through the top floor of a residential building in Vienna's Margareten district. https://www.thelocal.at/20140828/gas-explosion-destroys-vienna-rooftop-apartment Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:27:00 +0200 gas-explosion-destroys-vienna-rooftop-apartment The start of school vacation nearly ended in tragedy for two young residents of Haag am Hausruck in Upper Austria on Friday, when their experiment with pressurized spray cans went badly wrong. https://www.thelocal.at/20140705/spray-can-explosion-causes-serious-injuries Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:50:16 +0200 spray-can-explosion-causes-serious-injuries