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The Austrian authorities have put the six children into care. Police say Mr Fritzl is a trained electrician, quite capable of having installed the remote-controlled door himself. A narrow corridor led into the cellar, which had a cooking and sleeping area, a small bathroom with a shower, and a padded cell. The cellar was divided into cells - some parts were no more than 1.70m (5.6ft) high.

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It could only be opened by a remote control electronic device with a numerical code - and Mr Fritzl kept hold of the device. Police found that Mr Fritzl had installed a reinforced concrete door to lock up the inmates in the cellar. The cellar is reached down a narrow concealed hallway Rosemarie had also borne Josef seven children. Rosemarie allegedly knew nothing about the inmates in the cellar. They went to school and Austrian officials say social services were led to believe their circumstances were quite normal.

The other three children were raised by Elisabeth's parents - Mr Fritzl and her mother, Rosemarie - upstairs. Police say Mr Fritzl admitted having burnt the body of one baby who died shortly after birth. Three of the children were locked up in the windowless cellar with Elisabeth and were kept there from birth. He also told police that he fathered her seven children, the youngest of whom is now five. Police say he has admitted beating her and sexually abusing her repeatedly.

The daughter who was held captive, Elisabeth Fritzl, said her father, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, incarcerated her in the cellar when she was aged 18. What is the accused alleged to have done to his family? The 'house of horrors' in Amstetten looks quite nondescriptĪustrian police say an elderly man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, in a case that has shocked the nation.