Petrzalka, Austria News

WHEN Markus Wuketich was growing up, close to the border that his homeland, Austria, shared with Czechoslovakia, he could always see Bratislava Castle and Petrzalka's blocks of flats, the so-called panelaky.

The project of an underground railway line between the stations Bratislava-Predmestie and Filialka will not be carried out in the current EU-funds programming period, Transport Minister Jan Pociatek decided.

A chemical leak on the premises of the Auto-Klima company on Kopcianska Street in Bratislava's Petrzalka district has injured sixteen people, one seriously, the TASR newswire reported.

Direct trains for Hlavna Stanica, Bratislava's main station, leave Simmering station in Vienna every hour.

An armed man who on Wednesday, February 22, robbed a branch of Tatra Banka on Tupolevova Street in the Bratislava borough of Petrzalka later shot and killed himself when police officers began chasing him, Bratislava Police spokesperson Petra Hraskova said later in the day, the TASR newswire reported.