A 27-year-old man is suspected of killing his former partner's new boyfriend with an axe, seriously injuring her and then killing himself by crashing head-on into a truck, police in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia reported on Tuesday.
After the initial fatal attack on the 29-year-old man and his 30-year-old former girlfriend, the man climbed into her car and crashed into a truck on a motorway with apparently suicidal intent, the police report said. He died at the scene.
According to police, the 27-year-old used a key still in his possession to gain entry to the home of his former girlfriend in Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, first attacking her and then her new partner before making off in her car.
