Shot-like noise on an Austrian alpine pasture: the police arrive with an SEK and find an injured man on site.
He can't explain the situation.
Fügenberg (Austria) - The Austrian police received a call on Tuesday morning, which informed the officers about a sound similar to a gunshot on an alpine pasture in the Zillertal.
The police moved out, apparently directly with their special unit Cobra, as the dpa reported.
What the officials found on site initially puzzled them.
Gunshot noise on Alm in the Zillertal: This is the Cobra special unit
What is the Cobra special unit in Austria?
The special task force Cobra is the most important special task force in Austria.
It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and has its headquarters in Wiener Neustadt, but also locations in Linz, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Feldkirch-Gisingen.
The SEK Cobra is a special unit for operations with an increased to very high degree of risk - originally the foundation goes back to terrorist threats in the 1970s.
The majority of the unit consists of men.
Anyone working in the Austrian police service can apply, but must undergo a strict aptitude test.
Cobra moves, among other things, in armed robbery or hostage-taking.
Austrian police find man with head injury on alpine pasture
On the Alm in Fügenberg, the officers met a man who had sustained a head injury.
However, the latter could not explain the origin of the injury.
All he had heard - like the caller apparently - was a loud bang.
The police now assume that there was a dust explosion when the man reloaded dry food for his animals.
A border region in Austria is threatened with strict exit controls.
(kat)
