Asylum Seeker Fair Dodgers Try To Derail Train

Story By: Michael Leidig, Sub-Editor: Angjela Trajkovska, Agency: Central European News Three asylum seekers who were kicked off a train when they were caught travelling without a ticket got revenge by putting wooden planks and stones on the tracks to try and derail the next train to come along. The…

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Read more about the article Ski Lift Gondolas In Bizarre Mass Pileup In High Winds
Pic shows: The crashed cable car in the Hochzillertal ski area These are the startling images taken after five cable cars at a ski lift smashed into each other high above a ski slope due to high winds. The bizarre accident happened yesterday [Sunday] at a ski lift in Hochzillertal, one of the most important skiing areas in the mountainous Austrian state of Tyrol. The cable cars of the "Wimbach Express" smashed into each other at one of the pillars near the town of Kaltenbach. The operation of the cable car had already been temporarily discontinued due to strong winds in the morning The gondolas were in the process of being retracted by the cable car operators when one gondola got entangled at one of the pillars. As a result, four other gondolas smashed into the stuck gondola, creating a mass pileup. When operators saw the accident, they immediately stopped the circulation of the cable cars, preventing an even bigger pileup. As no passengers were on board, nobody was injured in the accident. The exact damage done in the accident is currently unknown and it is not known when the cable car will be operational again. According to a spokesman from Hochzillertal Cable Cars, the authorities are currently investigating the accident. The "Wimbach Express" cable car is only one year old and is designed to transport up to 2,620 passengers per hour up to the ski slopes.

Ski Lift Gondolas In Bizarre Mass Pileup In High Winds

Story By: Koen Berghuis, Sub-Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Central European News These are the startling images taken after five cable cars at a ski lift smashed into each other high above a ski slope due to high winds. The bizarre accident happened yesterday [Sunday] at a ski lift in Hochzillertal,…

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Sat Nav Takes Lorry Driver Up Mountain Path

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video credit: CEN/Steyr City Volunteer Firefighters This is the moment a major rescue operation is launched after the Turkish driver of a 38-tonne lorry followed his satnav up an Alpine forest track and ended up almost falling from a 100-foot drop. A mobile…

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Colonel Accused Of Being Russian Spy For 20 Years

Story by: Aleksandra Stefanova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Picture credit: CENA retired Austrian colonel has been accused of spying on behalf of the Russians for 20 years and receiving over 200,000 GBP for supplying sensitive information. Local media said that it is the biggest spy scandal to have rocked Austria…

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