{"id":67173,"date":"2026-05-18T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/67173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:20:07","slug":"safety-fears-rise-in-austria-after-hiker-killed-by-herd-of-cows-in-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/67173\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety fears rise in Austria after hiker killed by herd of cows in the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VIENNA, May 18 \u2014 A 67-year-old hiker has died after being attacked by a herd of cows in Austria, authorities said, in the latest fatal incident involving livestock in the Alps, reported German Press Agency (dpa).<\/p>\n<p>The woman was attacked by what police described as a \u201cmid-double-digit number\u201d of cows in a pasture in the alpine district of Lienz in East Tyrol on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Her 65-year-old husband was also seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the reasons for the animals\u2019 aggressive behaviour remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were not accompanied by a dog at the time, police added.<\/p>\n<p>Cows sometimes react to the presence of dogs \u2013 particularly when they are protecting their calves \u2013 by attacking the animal.<\/p>\n<p>In light of such incidents, authorities and farmers repeatedly advise caution when hiking in Alpine regions.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, an 85-year-old man died following a cow attack while walking with his wife and a dog in the Ramsau am Dachstein area of the Austrian Alps. \u2014 Bernama-dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIENNA, May 18 \u2014 A 67-year-old hiker has died after being attacked by a herd of cows in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,10406,36341,36338,36340,13392],"class_list":{"0":"post-67173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-austrian-alps","10":"tag-east-tyrol","11":"tag-lienz","12":"tag-ramsau-am-dachstein","13":"tag-vienna"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116593663904202248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}