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2 dead, 1 missing after Swiss landslide, police say

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  • 2 dead, 1 missing after Swiss landslide, police say
  • June 30, 2024
  • Article Body Text GENEVA — <p>Two people have died and a third is missing after torrential rains triggered a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police said Sunday.</p> <p>Violent storms lashed the Alpine country with rain this weekend, with hundreds of people evacuated in the west after the Rhone River and its tributaries broke their banks.</p> <p>&quot;The bodies of two people were found by rescuers in connection with the landslide in the Fontana region,&quot; police in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino said in a statement.</p> <p>According to local daily <em>La Regione</em>, the dead were two women who were on holiday in the region.</p> <p>Emergency services were assessing the best way to evacuate 300 people who had arrived for a football tournament in Peccia, while almost 70 more were being evacuated from a holiday camp in the village of Mogno.</p> <p>The poor weather was making rescue work particularly difficult, police had said earlier, with several valleys inaccessible and cut off from the electricity network.</p> <p>The federal alert system also said part of the canton was without drinking water.</p> <p>In the western canton of Valais, the civil security services said &quot;several hundred&quot; people were evacuated and roads closed after the Rhone overflowed in different locations.</p> <p>Extreme rainfall also struck southeastern Switzerland last weekend, leaving one dead and causing major damage. </p>
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  • Embargo Date June 30, 2024 05:51 EDT
  • Byline Agence France-Presse
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