Youth electrocuted in Morges, Pakistani woman dies on Interlaken luge

Three climbers die in Valais

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The hot, fun days of summer have been accompanied in the region by a series of fatal accidents.

A 20-year-old man died in the early hours of Saturday 17 July when he crossed the rails near a train parked in the station at Morges in canton Vaud was  electrocuted. He had stepped onto a locomotive, putting him in the line of its electrical charge.

People near the station saw an electric flash at 02:40 and alerted CFF rail company staff. Emergency teams arrived quickly and found the body of the youth, a Swiss man from the Lausanne area, on the tracks, say Vaud police.

A Pakistani woman visiting Switzerland died Monday after she was thrown from her luge at the Heimwehfluh luge park near Interlaken, around 13:00, for reasons that are not yet clear. She was found several metres from the piste and was rushed to hospital, but she died later from her injuries.

Two climbers in Valais lost their lives Monday at 08:45 in a 900-metre fall on the north face of the Liskamm, near Zermatt. The two men, who were roped together, have not yet been identified.

They had left the Capanna Gnifetti to climbe the Liskamm and appear to have been at an altitude of 4,470 metres when they fell, for reasons that are not yet clear. They were at coordinates 630/000 – 086/130.

A third climber in Valais died near Arolla 18 July, Sunday, at 12:30 while climbing down from the Grande Dent de Veisivi. The 51-year-old Frenchman had climbed the peak alone but came down by another path and found himself in a couloir, where he fell 100 metres to his death.

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