{"id":192232,"date":"2025-09-01T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:36:15","slug":"hiker-dies-after-getting-trampled-by-cows-in-austrian-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192232\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker dies after getting trampled by cows in Austrian Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 85-year-old hiker in the Austrian Alps<\/a> was killed after a herd of cows trampled him and his wife while they were walking their dog, local police said Monday.<\/p>\n

The man and his 82-year-old wife were hiking towards a mountain hut in Ramsau am Dachstein in Austria’s Styria province on Sunday afternoon when the incident occurred, police said.<\/p>\n

“A retired couple from Vienna and their dog were walking just below the so-called Austria hut when a herd of nine cows — including three calves \u2014 charged and severely injured them,” local police spokesman Markus Lamb told AFP.<\/p>\n

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Cows grazing in the Austrian Alps.<\/p>\n

Frank Hammerschmidt\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hikers in the area and people running the nearby refuge hut witnessed the attack, administered first aid and alerted emergency services. The couple was then taken to a hospital in Salzburg.<\/p>\n

The man died from his injuries before he could undergo emergency surgery, officials said.<\/p>\n

Local prosecutors are investigating the exact circumstances of the attack, pending an autopsy. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Fatal cow attacks are rare in the nation of more than nine million people, whose mountains are a popular tourist attraction where cow herds graze freely.<\/p>\n

In 2024, a woman, accompanied by two small dogs, who was hiking in the Salzburg region, died when a cow herd charged her.<\/p>\n

Following a deadly cow attack a decade earlier, Austria’s government published a “code of conduct” for hikers.<\/p>\n

The guidelines include keeping a distance from cows and walking dogs on a short lead but unleashing them in case of attack.<\/p>\n

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