GenevaLunch » drowning http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Man with Port Wilson drowning victim found not guilty http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/man-with-port-wilson-drowning-victim-found-not-guilty/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/man-with-port-wilson-drowning-victim-found-not-guilty/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:05:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60353 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A man who spent the evening with a woman who drowned just one metre from the shore in front of the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva in July 2010 has been cleared by a judge of any involvement in the woman’s death, reports the Tribune de Geneve Wednesday 3 August. The two [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/man-with-port-wilson-drowning-victim-found-not-guilty/feed/ 0 Accidents, storms mark Swiss holiday http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/02/accidents-storms-mark-swiss-holiday/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/02/accidents-storms-mark-swiss-holiday/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:11:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45380 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - The First of August national holiday in Switzerland was not a quiet one for emergency services. The east of the country was swept by high winds and rain late in the day and during the night from Sunday to Monday, causing flooding in Schwytz and St Gallen. A man drowned in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/02/accidents-storms-mark-swiss-holiday/feed/ 0 Second drowning death in four days in region http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/09/second-drowning-death-in-four-days-in-region/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/09/second-drowning-death-in-four-days-in-region/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:19:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44747 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – A second young man has drowned this week, a 20-year-old, Thursday afternoon 9 July, at the Hauterive port in Neuchatel. He was with a friend, who immediately raised the alert but by the time emergency services arrived it was too late to save the youth, who was from Gampelen in canton [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/09/second-drowning-death-in-four-days-in-region/feed/ 0 American tourist drowns in Lake Geneva at Montreux beach http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/07/american-tourist-drowns-in-lake-geneva-at-montreux-beach/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/07/american-tourist-drowns-in-lake-geneva-at-montreux-beach/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:46:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44562 GenevaLunch.com Montreux, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - An American in his thirties drowned while swimming in Lake Geneva, near the Chillon beach in Montreux Tuesday afternoon 6 July, Vaud police say. He and a fellow American were swimming together near the Chateau de Chillon, but the friend lost sight of him around 14:00 and an alarm was quickly [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/07/american-tourist-drowns-in-lake-geneva-at-montreux-beach/feed/ 20 Vaud man drowns in Lake Neuchatel http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/vaud-man-drowns-in-lake-neuchatel/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/vaud-man-drowns-in-lake-neuchatel/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:18:58 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31638 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Passers-by discovered the body of a 58-year-old man from canton Vaud on the shore of Lake  Neuchatel, near du Nid-du-Crô, Neuchatel Sunday afternoon, 20Minutes reports. Police speculate he may have slipped off the end of the pier.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/vaud-man-drowns-in-lake-neuchatel/feed/ 0 Sports accidents deaths kill 4, critically injure 3, including US student http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/sports-accidents-deaths-kill-4-critically-injure-2/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/sports-accidents-deaths-kill-4-critically-injure-2/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:36:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=26381 GenevaLunch.com Update 31 August 06:30  Martigny and Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The week’s end death and serious injury toll from non-road accidents in the Lake Geneva area in Switzerland was high, with 2 young men in critical condition after a swimming pool accident in Martigny and a diving accident in Prangins, and three people dead from [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/30/sports-accidents-deaths-kill-4-critically-injure-2/feed/ 0 Weekend accidents list in Switzerland, nearby France lengthens http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/weekend-accidents-list-in-switzerland-nearby-france-lengthens/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/weekend-accidents-list-in-switzerland-nearby-france-lengthens/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:37:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=21953 GenevaLunch.com 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 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/weekend-accidents-list-in-switzerland-nearby-france-lengthens/feed/ 0 Alabama father faces the death penalty or life in prison http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/20/alabama-father-faces-the-death-penalty-or-life-in-prison/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/03/20/alabama-father-faces-the-death-penalty-or-life-in-prison/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:13:41 +0000 Jillian Hudson http://genevalunch.com/?p=14106 GenevaLunch.com A jury in Alabama in the US convicted Lam Luong, 37, on four counts of murder Thursday 19 March. Luong pleaded guilty to throwing his four children off of a Gulf Coast bridge after a marital dispute that occurred a week before the murders in January 2008. Luong’s sentencing, a complex process, begins Friday 20 March. [...]

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