Fatal Embassy Blaze
Max-Ingrand Dead
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) VIENNA, Aug. 27. Two “Molotov cocktails” were hurled through the entrance of the Canadian Embassy in Vienna yesterday, starting an intense blaze that swept through the suite in minutes and killed two people.
At least 30 other people were injured, some of them being badly burned.
As the fire raged, a man in ragged clothes walked up to a policeman and said: “I set the place on fire.” He has since been Identified as Colman Lonsonczy, aged 47, a Hungarian now of Canadian nationality. The embassy, which is housed in a five-storey building near the city centre and overlooking the Danube Canal, was badly damaged and its main reception room destroyed. The two victims were-both Austrian employees; no Cana- !
dian casualties were reported, Diplomats escaped from th< blaze by clambering througk windows into a courtyard ba low or down ladders huf riedly placed by people livinj nearby.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32078, 28 August 1969, Page 17
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