Hiker and rescuer plunge to death in Austria as helicopter line gives way
A stranded Austrian mountain hiker and her would-be rescuer fell to their deaths when a line hoisting them into a police helicopter gave way, sending them and the woman’s husband plunging into a gorge below.
The husband was critically injured but survived the incident on Sunday in Styria province, local police said on Monday.
The police helicopter had responded to a distress signal from the Viennese couple, and a 28-year-old officer had attached himself and the two of them to the rescue line. The cause of the accident was still under investigation.
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