Result of the autopsy

Dead body in stream: results of autopsy confirmed

Tuesday began with a huge shock for two schoolchildren in Reichraming: they discovered a male corpse on the school path that had become entangled in a stream under a footbridge. The public prosecutor's office in Steyr ordered a post-mortem examination to rule out the possibility of third-party involvement.

The fire department and school caretaker reacted with lightning speed after the gruesome discovery - the children must not even have noticed that they had discovered a body. The public prosecutor's office in Steyr ordered a post-mortem examination to rule out the possibility of any outside involvement.

No outside culpability 
The result was clear on Thursday afternoon. "The man drowned, there was no evidence of any external cause," said public prosecutor Andreas Pechatschek. Although the body had a laceration to the head, this was probably caused by a fall. How the victim - said to be a 62-year-old from Lower Austria - got into the stream is a matter of conjecture.