VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Police on Tuesday returned to the house where a teenager was imprisoned in an underground cell for more than eight years to search the dwelling for possible additional hidden rooms, authorities said.
Twelve officers were combing anew through the house in Strasshof, a tidy suburb just northeast of Vienna, checking the home's construction to rule out the possibility that Wolfgang Priklopil may have built other windowless cells, the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau said.
Investigators have not suggested that Priklopil, 44, who killed himself within hours of the escape last Wednesday of 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch by throwing himself beneath a commuter train, may have kidnapped other girls.
So far, authorities said Tuesday, police have uncovered no other hidden cavities in the house.
"That is a giant house," and the search -- complicated by the fact that some of the blueprints are missing -- could take several days, the Austria Press Agency quoted an unidentified investigator as saying.
Officials have said that DNA taken from Priklopil's body and checked against a vast nationwide database turned up no evidence that he had been sought for any other crimes, including other missing person cases.
Police said they had not yet resumed their questioning of Kampusch, who remained in a secure and undisclosed location, adding that it was "up to her and her alone" to decide when she was ready to talk to investigators about her ordeal.
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