Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two people died Sunday 1 November on Geneva roads, and details have not yet been officially released for a separate accident, where another person reportedly died. The police have not yet been able to identify the victims in the first accident, which took place at 04:30 on the Route des Jeunes, as the driver left the A1 autoroute, coming from Perly in the direction of Geneva.
The yellow Audi, registered in Geneva, hit an island, flipped over and caught fire. Police say they are waiting for DNA results to identify the victims.
A man died, according to Swiss television TSR, Saturday morning at 07:30 on the rue de Pictet-de-Rochemont, after being thrown from a car. Also Saturday, in Lausanne, a young man died after falling 10 metres from a terrace near Place St Francois. Police have determined that the death was accidental.
And in Zurich, some 20 people suffered injuries, with half of them hospitalized, when a railing gave way at a disco, Oxo, where a large crowd was waiting to get in.
Links to other sites: TSR, 20 Minutes (Fre)
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News story, GenevaLunch, 2 November 2009.
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