Eldest Fritzl daughter reunited with her family

THE eldest child from the incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth has been reunited with her family after recovering from an induced coma.

Doctors said yesterday the whole family — Elisabeth and the six surviving of seven children she bore while locked in a cellar for 24 years — had moved into a house on the hospital grounds to promote a normal living environment.

Fritzl, 73, in custody since April, held Elisabeth, now 42, in a soundproofed basement under his house in Amstetten.