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Disco driver crash kills 39-year-old man

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Incident occurs 1 week after similar accident in Geneva ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Police in Zurich are seeking witnesses after a car crashed into a Zurich disco, the Lambada, early Friday 10 February, killing one person and injuring five others including the driver. Witnesses told journalists that the driver appeared to steer his car into the [...]

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Crans-sur-Celigny villa latest victim of Christmas candles

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:10:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 88-year-old man and his 52-year-old son were burned on the face and hands and suffered from smoke inhalation after a candle set their Christmas tree on fire Friday evening shortly before 19:00 in Crans-sur-Celigny, in canton Vaud near Nyon. The villa was completely destroyed. Thirty fire fighters and seven vehicles were [...]

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Earthquake in Turkey minor, but 7 dead in hotel collapse

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:26:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Reports vary from four to seven dead in the earthquake that hit eastern Turkey Thursday morning 10 November, in the area badly damaged by an earthquake 23 October. The earlier quake was 7.3 on the Richter scale; this was one 5.7. Scores of people are missing, with officials estimating 100, after two [...]

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Deadly M-5 UK motorway accident involves 27 vehicles

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:35:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 27-vehicle pileup on the M5 motorway in Somerset, England, has killed an unknown number of people but initial reports list 5 dead, at least 43 injured. The accident occurred at 20:35 Friday 4 November at exit 25 northbound, near Taunton, with the crashes sparking a huge fireball. It appears that six [...]

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Woman who shook child, causing its death, gets 10 years

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:27:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A 27-year-old woman who in 2006 shook a child to death, has been given a 10-year-prison sentence. She is the third person involved in a child abuse case that involved her partner and his other female companion and three of the man’s children. They were all living together as a group with [...]

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China: Local journalists banned from investigating train crash

Laila Rodriguez — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:02:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The AFP reports today 26 July that local journalists in China are being banned from investigating a crash between two high-speed trains that killed 39 and left hundreds of people hurt. The trains involved in the 23 July collision, were the first generation of China’s high-speed trains designed to travel at a [...]

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Chinese freak storm train crash leaves at least 35 dead, 21 trains suspended

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:18:01 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Chinese authorities say the death toll has risen to 35, with nearly 200 injured people in hospital following a crash in southeastern China between two high-speed trains, each of them carrying 1,500-2,000 people. A first train was stopped by a power outage caused by lightning, and a second train following on the [...]

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Cyprus blast, “accident”, kills at least 8, injures scores, cuts electricity

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:03:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A huge blast at a Cyprus munitions dump at a naval base on the south of the island at 06:00 (local time) Monday 11 July killed at least 8 people. Some reports say 12 people have died and at least 38 were injured. It is being treated for now as an accident, [...]

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Nigerian sent back from Zurich: first flight runs into trouble

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:45:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The first group of Nigerians to be returned to their country in a year for being in Switzerland illegally was coloured by problems at Zurich Airport Thursday 7 July. Two of the group of 19 resisted and were injured by police; they were not put on the plane in the end and [...]

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4 seriously injured in 3 Vaud motorcycle accidents

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:15:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Three motorcyclists are in serious condition after separate accidents over the weekend, in Vaud and Valais. Friday night 24 June at 21:45, a 20-year-old motorcyclist was passing a truck on the Chavornay-Orbe road, heading towards Orbe, when he was surprised by a car coming in the opposite direction. He managed to avoid [...]

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