Austrian authorities are investigating the murders of four women and a 13-year-old girl in Vienna over the past day.
Three of the women are were stabbed in a brothel, revealed the APA.
The bodies of three young women were found with fatal knife wounds in a brothel in the Brigittenau district of the Austrian capital on Friday evening after a witness alerted the police.
On Saturday, police said a 27-year-old man, still carrying a knife believed to be the murder weapon, had been arrested nearby on suspicion of having carried out the killings.
No motive has been given for the killings, and the suspect is still being questioned, Austria’s APA news agency reported.
A woman and her 13-year-old daughter were found dead in a Vienna apartment.
They may have been strangled or suffocated, and the father is the prime suspectAPA reported.
The Austrian Association of Autonomous Women’s Shelters recorded 26 murders of women last year, and there is a debate in the country and across Europe about the murders of women and girls, often at the hands of partners or ex-partners.
The Austrian government promised to take measures to combat violenceincluding increasing funding for organizations that help victims of violence.
But NGOs say the government is not doing enough to stop the killings.
Between 2010 and 2020 in Austria 319 women were killedmostly by their male partners or ex-partners, with a record 43 victims in 2019, according to a government study.
2024-02-24 20:47:44
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