Entire town mourns

Mayor found his dead son (30)

A terrible tragedy has shaken a community of 600 people in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria. A young sawmill owner (30) was crushed to death during repair work in his own sawmill on Tuesday. He had taken over the family business from his father. It is now unclear what will happen next.

"Everyone knows everyone here. We are all affected" - time stood still for a moment in Lichtenau im Mühlkreis (Rohrbach district) on Wednesday when the news spread that Sebastian N.(30) was dead. And that his own father, who has been mayor of the small community of barely 600 inhabitants for 22 years, had found him.