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Help Cries from Apartment: 26-Year-Old Stabbed Husband in Vienna-Alsergrund

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Die Polizei nahm die Frau fest. ©APA/HARALD SCHNEIDER
Cries for help from an apartment in Vienna-Alsergrund triggered a police operation on Thursday evening. A 40-year-old man was taken to the hospital with multiple stab wounds. His wife was arrested.

Alert witnesses called the police on December 11 after hearing cries for help from an apartment in Vienna-Alsergrund around 8:10 PM. The officers found a 40-year-old man at the scene who was responsive but had multiple stab wounds in the neck and head area.

Wife Confesses to Knife Attack

The injured man's wife, a 26-year-old Austrian citizen, admitted to the officers that she had attacked her husband with a knife during an argument. The alleged weapon was found and secured in the apartment.

The man received emergency medical care from the Vienna professional rescue service and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The officers found that the 26-year-old had an alcohol level of more than 1.6 per mille. She was temporarily arrested.

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