Austria/Salzburg [ RNC ] Agency 15.02.96

In a Salzburg apartment house in which Roma and Refugees were accommodated 4 persons were injured as a result of an explosion. Two were thought to dead, but according to police reports are alive after having emergency treatment in hospital. One of the injured was a fire man. According to eye witnesses the fire started from a petrol canister One flatwas completely burnt out. The authorities believe the fire was an act of racist arson