Austrian Man Sets Relatives on Fire Using Home-made Flamethrower

A man from Austria is in jail after authorities say he used a flamethrower to burn his two elderly in-law parents to death as they slept in their home located in Hartberg in the state of Styria.

The man, 48, is said to have first doused the bedroom with gasoline and then used a canister filled with propane to light the room on fire.

The victims, a woman and man in their 80’s, were sleeping when the suspect tried to burn them. The woman, was bed ridden due to advanced diabetes and had previously had her legs amputated and died where she slept. Her husbandtried to escape and authorities found him dead, lying on a bench in the couple’s garden.

The suspect left the scene of the crime, but was apprehended by police shortly after the incident. In the process, the man stabbed himself in the stomach in an apparent suicide attempt. He is currently in a drug induced coma at a local hospital.

Police are investigating the incident to determine a motive.

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