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Killing of three women in Austrian brothel highlights dangers of sex industry

POLICE are investigating the killing of three women in a legal brothel in Vienna, they announced on Saturday.

The women appear to have been stabbed to death and a man carrying a knife was arrested in the vicinity.

Eva-Maria Holzleitner, women’s spokeswoman for the opposition Social Democrats, called on the government to call a crisis meeting on femicide and demanded “a national action plan to protect against violence.”

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