An 18-year-old migrant from Somalia has been arrested for breaking into a hospital and trying to sexually assault a female patient.
The attempted sex attack reportedly happened in the early morning hours of Monday in the psychiatric department of the University Hospital of Innsbruck, the capital of the mountainous state of Tyrol.
The Somali man targeted a 29-year-old female patient but she was able to press the emergency button next to her bed, which alerted the nurse.
According to the State Police Directorate of Tyrol, the 40-year-old nurse who answered the call managed to pull the man away from his victim, after which she called the police.
The alleged sex offender has been arrested and has been taken to the penal institution in Innsbruck. No further details about the incident are available.
Another attack happened at a special care institute in Mödling, a city in the state of Lower Austria just south of the capital of Vienna.