Dungeon children get private tutoring

The director of a psychiatric clinic treating the family of dungeon master Josef Fritzl says teachers have started tutoring the children he fathered with his daughter.

Berthold Kepplinger says in comments carried by the Austria Press Agency today that the tutoring began several days ago.

He also stresses that the family needs privacy to recuperate and urged the paparazzi to stop trying to take photos of the victims.

Authorities said earlier this week that a security guard at the clinic was injured in a tussle with a photographer.

Police say Fritzl confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her.