Captive Austrian family reunited

Long-lost members of an Austrian family terrorised by decades of imprisonment had an "astonishing" reunion at the clinic where psychiatrists are helping them cope, authorities said today.

Hospital officials said most of the seven children Josef Fritzl fathered over the past 24 years with the daughter he held captive in a windowless cell spent their first moments together on Sunday - a day after those kept confined finally gained their freedom.