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Three freeze to death

By William Green

Three people froze to death in Austria over the weekend as temperatures plummeted to below minus 20 degrees Celsius in many areas.

A 59-year old man was found frozen in a field by a hunter yesterday (Sun) morning near Werfen in Salzburg�s Pongau. Police said the man had fallen seven metres down a grassy embankment onto an asphalt road just 50 metres from a tavern he had been drinking at one Saturday night.

A 19-year-old from Oberhaag in Leibnitz district in Styria also died after apparently collapsing and freezing to death as he walked from a disco in the early hours of yesterday morning. Police said he had been wearing in gym shoes, jeans and a light pullover in minus 23 degrees Celsius.

And a 43-year-old plumber froze to death on Friday night near M�hldorf in Styria�s Feldbach district . Police said the man had been to a disco after attending his firm�s Christmas party and left it to walk 1.5 kilometres to his apartment in Leitersdorf at 2am.

Austrian Times

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