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05-01-2008, 10:24 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/wl_nm/austria_abuse_dc;_ylt=AjME2wg7GIF4mDQS.tdlsZkUewgF
MSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had threatened to kill his victims by pumping gas into the cellar where he was holding them, police said on Thursday.
Police were also investigating a claim by Josef Fritzl that the locked door to the cellar would open automatically if he was away for an extended period.
Fritzl, 73, told police earlier this week he had made threats to pump gas into the cellar where he hid his daughter and three of her children, a spokesman for the national criminal investigation office said.
"But we have not yet proved if this claim is correct," Helmut Greiner of the Federal Criminal Police Office said.
Greiner said investigators were also examining the reinforced concrete door to the cellar.
MSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had threatened to kill his victims by pumping gas into the cellar where he was holding them, police said on Thursday.
Police were also investigating a claim by Josef Fritzl that the locked door to the cellar would open automatically if he was away for an extended period.
Fritzl, 73, told police earlier this week he had made threats to pump gas into the cellar where he hid his daughter and three of her children, a spokesman for the national criminal investigation office said.
"But we have not yet proved if this claim is correct," Helmut Greiner of the Federal Criminal Police Office said.
Greiner said investigators were also examining the reinforced concrete door to the cellar.