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Austrian Woman, Kidnapped as Child in 1998, Flees Cellar Prison
By Jonathan Tirone Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) –
An Austrian girl, abducted in 1998when she was 10 years old, has been reunited with her parentsafter fleeing a basement prison, Vienna police said today. “A young girl disappeared eight years ago,” PoliceGeneral Nicholas Koch said at a press conference. “What we havenow is a grown woman.” Natascha Kampusch, now 18, broke free yesterday afternoon.Her kidnapper, identified only as Wolfgang P., died last nightafter he was hit by a train, Koch said. Police are investigatingwhether he killed himself and are searching his house. Kampusch disappeared on the morning of March 2, 1998 as shewas on her way to school, prompting Austria’s largest-evermanhunt. Police interviewed more than 1,000 owners of whitemini-vans, the kind of car Kampusch was seen entering the dayshe went missing. Kampusch was held captive in Strasshof, about 10 kilometers(6 miles) from Vienna. She was confined to the windowlessbasement of a house in a residential neighborhood, police said. Kampusch escaped yesterday after finding a door unlocked,police said. With Wolfgang P. still in the house, she ran to aneighboring garden and told the occupant who she was. Wolfgang P. was one of the people interviewed in April 1998because of the make of his car. He told police that he used itto transport construction material and he wasn’t investigatedfurther, Vienna police spokesman Erich Zwettler said.