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 Four people were killed and several injured in a shooting in central Vienna on Monday in what the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called a "repulsive terror attack". https://www.thelocal.at/20201102/several-injured-in-shooting-near-vienna-synagogue Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:20:20 +0100 several-injured-in-shooting-near-vienna-synagogue A man has been arrested in the Austrian resort town of Kitzbuehel on Sunday after the shooting deaths of five people. https://www.thelocal.at/20191006/ive-killed-five-people Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:05:15 +0200 ive-killed-five-people A banker suspected of killing his stepbrother by shooting him in the head in an apartment in Vienna’s upmarket 18th district last September has been released from pre-trial custody. https://www.thelocal.at/20160222/suspect-in-stepbrother-shooting-released Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:58:24 +0100 suspect-in-stepbrother-shooting-released Police are investigating an incident in St Pölten, Lower Austria, where four shots were fired at local buses on Tuesday evening. Nobody was injured. https://www.thelocal.at/20151202/mysterious-attack-on-austrian-buses Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:37:53 +0100 mysterious-attack-on-austrian-buses Police have identified a third man who was present during the shooting of a 34-year-old Serbian national in Ottakring in Vienna early on Sunday. The victim remains in a critical condition after being shot in the head. https://www.thelocal.at/20151019/man-in-critical-condition-after-ottakring-shooting Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:30:17 +0200 man-in-critical-condition-after-ottakring-shooting A 13-year-old boy who was wounded in a shooting in Vienna’s Brigittenau district on Sunday is being treated in hospital and is said to be making a good recovery. https://www.thelocal.at/20150706/teen-shooting-victim-recovering Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:00:57 +0200 teen-shooting-victim-recovering A 37-year-old home owner shot and seriously injured a suspected burglar early on Friday morning in the village of Zwentendorf an der Donau in Lower Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150515/man-shoots-suspected-burglar-in-head Fri, 15 May 2015 16:47:14 +0200 man-shoots-suspected-burglar-in-head A loudly crowing cockerel in a neighbour's garden annoyed a 54-year-old Carinthian man so much that he grabbed his air rifle to shoot the bird on Sunday evening, but accidentally shot the rooster's 81-year-old owner instead. https://www.thelocal.at/20150323/man-driven-mad-by-cockerel-shoots-neighbour Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:15:15 +0100 man-driven-mad-by-cockerel-shoots-neighbour A Serbian man has absconded from hospital, just two weeks after being shot in the head by his brother outside a Billa supermarket in Vienna. https://www.thelocal.at/20150309/headshot-victim-absconds-from-vienna-hospital Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:34:15 +0100 headshot-victim-absconds-from-vienna-hospital Police were in a shoot-out with an armed burglar in Floridsdorf on Monday evening after catching him and an accomplice breaking and entering a business in Helene-Richter-Gasse, not far from the border with Lower Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150224/two-injured-after-vienna-shootings Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:07:00 +0100 two-injured-after-vienna-shootings A 53-year-old Chechen man was shot dead in the market town of Strasswalchen in the Flachau region of Salzburg on Thursday afternoon. Shortly afterwards police arrested a 54-year-old suspect - also from Chechnya - who was armed with a gun. https://www.thelocal.at/20150206/chechen-shot-dead-in-salzburg-market-town Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:56:00 +0100 chechen-shot-dead-in-salzburg-market-town Three police cadets have been injured in a shooting incident in St Pölten, during a training session on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.at/20150109/three-police-cadets-injured-in-shooting-prank Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:50:00 +0100 three-police-cadets-injured-in-shooting-prank A man who shot and injured a 13-year-old girl on Halloween has been remanded in custody in Eisenstadt, Burgenland. https://www.thelocal.at/20141103/halloween-gunman-given-pre-trial-detention Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:28:00 +0100 halloween-gunman-given-pre-trial-detention Exactly one year ago today, on September 17, 2013, poacher Alois Huber shot and killed two police officers, a paramedic and a member of Austria's counter terrorism special operations unit in the Lower Austrian town of Annaberg. https://www.thelocal.at/20140916/criticism-of-poaching-murder-report Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:57:21 +0200 criticism-of-poaching-murder-report A man was shot and injured in a drugs dispute in the stairwell of a Vienna apartment block on Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.at/20140827/vienna-man-shot-and-injured-in-drugs-dispute Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:53:49 +0200 vienna-man-shot-and-injured-in-drugs-dispute A 28-year-old man is in a medically induced coma after his 83-year-old aunt shot him on Sunday after an argument in Pasching, near Linz, which turned violent. The elderly woman shot herself after injuring her nephew, and died from her wounds. https://www.thelocal.at/20140811/man-in-coma-after-elderly-aunt-shot-him Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:39:00 +0200 man-in-coma-after-elderly-aunt-shot-him