A corpse was found bound to a tree by some mushroom pickers in the locality of Hlivistia in the District of Sobrana. The body was already so decomposed that the police could not determine the cause of death or even the gender of the body at the site of the incident. An autopsy will reveal [...]
It’s all the rage! Car burning seems to be becoming very popular in Slovakia as a way of dealing with vendettas. On the same day someone set the Mercedes of MP Lukac on fire in Kosice, another car was set alight in the borough of Lamac in Bratislava. An unknown perpetrator set a Skoda octavia [...]
A tornado swept through Diósjenő in the region of Nógrád yesterday, uprooting trees and tossing them onto electricity poles and cars. There were gale-force winds, with hailstones as large as walnuts. A storm on Sunday left around 60,000 consumers without electricity, 9,200 of which were still without power on Monday afternoon.
Two workmen were killed in the village of Lendak today, after a wall collapsed on top of them. The men were involved in construction work at a primary school, which would prove fateful for both of them. One man died immediately while the other died in the hands of the medical rescue team that had [...]
Minister of Economy and Construction, Juraj Miškov, has designated Andrea Gulova as the interim head of the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO). She is replacing recalled director Robert Simoncic and will hold the post until a new director is selected through standard selection proceedings. Gulova has worked at SARIO since 2004, and was [...]
Today, 10 August, was a sad day in the Town of Handlova as it commemorated the first anniversary of the biggest single tragedy in the century-long history of the town’s mines. It was exactly at 9.30 a.m. on this day last year that all contact was lost with a rescue team that had been sent [...]
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