Worker dies from rooftop fall in Vétroz, Valais

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 49-year-old Portuguese man died at the Sion hospital late Wednesday 26 September after falling three meters from a roof where he was working, in Vétroz.

The house was being renovated and the man was reroofing it, working on a horizontal stretch, when he lost his balance and fell, hitting his head, shortly before 14:00, say Valais police.