Man found living in Austrian cellar ‘with six English children’ arrested

Austrian police arrested the man (Alamy/PA)

Austrian police have arrested a 54-year-old man after he attacked two social workers with pepper spray when they found him living illegally in a private wine cellar with a woman and six children who he claimed were born in England.

Police in the province of Lower Austria were still trying to determine the identity of the children, who were aged from seven months to five years old.