'Snake man' escapes from prison

A man has escaped from a prison cell in Austria by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police have said.

The 19-year-old man from Kosovo weighed less than 55kg (121lb), police spokesman Alexander Niederwimmer in the city of Linz told the APA news agency.

He said officials were investigating how the inmate - dubbed "a snake man" - had got through two further doors and possibly breached the prison walls.

The inmate had been held in the prison for entering Austria illegally.