Five women were murdered in Vienna in a single day, three of them in brothels

Austrian authorities investigate this Saturday murder of five women In the capital in a single day, ViennaIncluding the three who were brutally stabbed in a brothel.

The bodies of three young women with fatal knife wounds were found in a brothel in Vienna’s Brigittenau district on Friday night, after a witness alerted police.

A 27 year old man The man carrying the knife – believed to be the murder weapon – was arrested near the scene and authorities suspect him of being the perpetrator of the murders, police said.

Austrian press agency APA reported that no clues had yet emerged about the motivations and the suspect was still being interrogated.

In another case, a mother and her 13-year-old daughter were found dead in a Vienna apartment on Friday. The APA said she was possibly strangled and the father is the prime suspect.

Austrian association of self-employed women’s shelters registered Murders of 26 women last year And there is growing outrage over the killing of women and girls, often at the hands of partners or former partners.

The Austrian government has promised to take stronger action, including increased funding for organizations helping victims of violence.

But NGOs say the government is not doing enough to stop the killings.

Between 2010 and 2020, 319 women were murdered in Austria, most of them by their male partners or former partners, according to a government study, with a record 43 victims in 2019.