Siblings died

“The death of children shakes the world enormously”

Christoph (29) died in the wreckage of the red Hyundai; barely two years earlier, his sister Katharina (25) had died in almost the same place near Niederneukirchen. Her car had also collided head-on with a truck.(Bild: Matthias Lauber/laumat.at)

A family loses two of three children in a macabre parallel accident. Hundreds of online condolences following the krone.at report show how much sympathy there is for the family, which has been struck by fate. But what is the right reaction, how to deal with the relatives - experts who deal with this on a daily basis know what to do.

"The death of your own children shatters your world view enormously. And it makes no difference whether the children are already adults" - this is the second time the world has collapsed for parents in Niederneukirchen. Two years ago, they lost Katharina (25) and now Christoph (29) - two of their three children - in almost the same place, in almost identical traffic accidents.