VIENNA, Austria _ The Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her children has had his first face-to-face meeting with a prosecutor.

A prosecution official says Josef Fritzl and prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser talked for two hours.

They didn't discuss the allegations against him, but he provided the prosecutor with details about his background, including his career. No more questioning is expected in the next two weeks.

Authorities claim the 73-year-old Fritzl, who has not yet been charged, initially confessed to holding daughter Elisabeth, now 42, and some of their seven children captive in a reinforced basement.

But Gerhard Sedlacek, a spokesman for the prosecution, says Fritzl has not elaborated.

The underground family came to light April 19 when Elisabeth's oldest child, a 19-year-old woman, was admitted to hospital with a severe infection in Amstetten, west of Vienna. Doctors, unable to find medical records for the woman, appealed on TV for her mother to come forward. Fritzl then accompanied Elisabeth to the hospital on April 26 and opened up to police.

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