Scene of drowning Monday in canton Valais
SION, SWITZERLAND – A 42-year-old Dutch man who lives in Valais died Monday morning 14 May when he fell into the fast-moving Rhone river in the Goms Valley, near Reckingham.
Police say that while doing maintenance work at the Augenstern campground he began emptying a wheelbarrow into the river at 11:30. For reasons that are not clear, he fell into the water.
His body was found 800 metres downstream by workers at the Gommerkraftswerke electric power station.
Val d'Anniviers, above St Luc, avalanche that took the life of a 45-year-old Dutch skier 17 April
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 45-year-old Dutch man who lives in The Netherlands died in an avalanche Tuesday 17 April in canton Valais.
He and another person were ski touring in the Val d’Anniviers when they were caught by the avalanche at 12:40. The other skier managed to get free and call for help but the Dutch man was buried under snow and died from his injuries.
The two had left St Luc for the Vijivi Pass. The avalanche was set off as they came back down, at about 2,900 metres.
Huibert Gerard Boumeester, 49, the former chief financial officer at ABN Amro Bank, has been found dead in woods in Berkshire, England, with two gunshoot wounds to his head. Police are investigating it as an “unexplained death”, according to the BBC. Boumeester quit his job in March 2009.
