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Austria was left reeling in 2006 after it was revealed that a 10-year-old schoolgirl had been abducted and held captive for more than eight years.

Now the central European nation has been left asking itself how a similar, if even worse, horror could happen after 73-year-old Josef Fritzl admitted to imprisoning his daughter for more than two decades, as well as fathering seven of her children.

"How is it possible that no one has ever heard or seen anything?" Der Standard newspaper on Monday asked of events in the town of Amstetten, outside Vienna. Read full article »

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