Swiss mountain claims four lives in two days
Friday - August 4, 2017 7:46 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Geneva Aug 4 (IANS/MAP) Three people have died while climbing the Piz Bernina mountain on the Swiss-Italian border police said.
The trio were roped together and climbing at about 3 600 metre altitude when they fell at around 7.30 a.m. on Thursday police said in a statement.
Witnesses called the Rega air rescue service which found the bodies. However owing to falling rocks their bodies could only be helicoptered off the mountain on Friday morning.
On Wednesday another person died on the same mountain. A 32-year-old German woman was climbing with a group on the Piz Bernina when she slipped and fell.
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