Thursday, 7 September 2006

Girl relives kidnap ordeal on TV


An abducted Austrian teenager held captive for eight years has said fear of her captor prevented her from trying to escape her basement prison.
In her first TV interview since escaping, Natascha Kampusch said she was "distraught and angry" in her cell.
But, she said, her captor had told her he would go on a killing spree if she tried to escape.
Millions of Austrians are thought to have watched Ms Kampusch's interview with state broadcaster ORF.
Ms Kampusch fled the basement prison where she had been held for eight years since her abduction as a 10-year-old in late August.
Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, committed suicide after her escape.
Austrian weekly News magazine and daily Kronen Zeitung newspaper carried the first recent photos of her on Wednesday.

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