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Courtroom news: driver who killed 2 work pals sentenced to 22 months

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:05:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former Swiss Life finance director’s sentence cut to 22 months, suspended Geneva gripped by court case over couple’s involvement in girlfriend’s death GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A judge in Sion this week sentenced the driver of a van that crashed into a military vehicle on the A9 autoroute to 22 months in prison, going beyond the [...]

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Four climbers die on Everest

Paula Dupraz — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:35:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four climbers died while returning from the summit of Mount Everest, over the weekend, Nepali officials report. All four climbers, from Germany, China, South Korea and Canada, died along the Southeast Ridge route, at altitudes of over 8000 meters above sea level. This area is also known as the “death zone”, as [...]

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Deadly weekend for motorcyclists in Switzerland

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:53:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The death toll was unusually high for motorcyclsts in western Switzerland over the weekend: 1 person died in Geneva and 2 in Valais. A car accident Saturday at 17:40 took the lives of two men in Geneva. The two men in the car crash were on the road from Peney to Bernex, [...]

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Two youths die in Vaud car crash

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:44:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Two youths are dead following a car crash at 21:50 Saturday 5 May on the edge of Granges-près-Marnand. Their overturned car was found just off the road in front of a business. The passenger was dead and the driver, age 20, was taken by helicopter to the Chuv university hospitals in critical [...]

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Egyptian pre-election shooting kills 11 in Cairo

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:12:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Eleven people were killed outside the ministry of defense in Cairo Wednesday 2 May, and up to 160 were reportedly wounded. Plainclothes gunmen attacked a group of protesters who were camped outside the ministry. The group, which numbers in the hundreds, has been protesting army rule for a number of days. Reuters [...]

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Public transport deaths: fewer trains, more buses and trams

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:29:35 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Fewer people died in train accidents in Switzerland in 2011, compared to 2010, but the number of deaths related to trams and buses rose. The country saw 13 deaths from trains last year, down by 5, most of them due to crossing train tracks and movements by freight trains. The 18 other [...]

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Deadly weekend in Swiss Alps (update)

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:43:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two men died in the Swiss Alps in separate accidents Monday 9 April, one in canton Valais and the other in Ticino. A hiker in Ticino came across “human remains” Saturday. Monday was the end of the long Easter holiday weekend in Switzerland. A 36-year-old man from canton Fribourg died when a [...]

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Gunman at small California college kills 6 students

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:00:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND – A former student at a small religious school that offers nursing courses in Oakland, California has shot and killed six students at the school, reports the Los Angeles Times. He was arrested at a nearby shopping centre. He also wounded three others at Oikos University.

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Siberian plane crash kills 31

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:38:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russian media Ria Novostisay reports that 31 of the 39 or 43 (accounts vary) people aboard a UTair plane flying from Tyumen to Surgut in Siberia died when the plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at 01:50. The crash into a snowy field near the village of Gorkovka occurred [...]

Killer sports weekend in the Alps

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:47:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One man died while sledding and another while paragliding in separate accidents in the Alps, say canton Valais police. Friday afternoon at 14:30 in Fiesch, in the Goms Valley, a man who was parapenting hit a streetlight as he was landing, for reasons that are not yet clear. The man, who died [...]