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Austrian police find family illegally living in wine cellar

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BERLIN (AP) — Austrian police say they arrested a 54-year-old man after he attacked two social workers with pepper spray when they found him living illegally in a private wine cellar in northeastern Austria with a woman and six young children. Police in the Austrian province of Lower Austria were still trying to determine the identity of six children, who were from 7 months to 5 years old. Neighbors in Obritz, a small town near the Czech border, alerted local authorities last week that there was a family living illegally in a local wine cellar. The children had not been neglected or harmed and are now in custody of social services. Police also found several weapons, including a gun, crossbows and compressed air weapons.

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