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Update 14:00  Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The weekend list of accidents has lengthened, with the death in Lake Constance of a 22-year-old man added to those of four climbers in Valais, and Ticino police reporting that a gardener for a golf course was killed while mowing the course. Six people were injured just outside Geneva on the Route de Thonon when a car apparently attempted to pass two other cars near Anières, causing the cars to flip over onto a bank. (details, Tribune de Geneve )

Police are investigating the drowning in northern Switzerland, but first reports are that the young man went swimming after drinking with friends late at night and when he didn’t return they raised the alert.

The death in Ticino occurred when the gardener fell from the mowing tractor he was driving, on a steep slope, and it rolled over him. He sustained serious injuries and died of them later in hospital.

A lesser accident but one that captured attention occurred Sunday in Satigny, canton Geneva, when a horse and rise fell five metres into a stream.

The rider was fine but it took several hours, six vehicles, 13 firefighters, and several local farmers to lift the horse out, which was finally done with a makeshift cable car.