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N. Switzerland train station, man critically injured for stopping youths

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:29:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SCHAFFHOUSE, SWITZERLAND – A 38-year-old man is in critical condition after being “brutally” knocked to the ground Sunday evening 1 April at the train station in Schaffhouse, reports news agency ats. The man had attempted to stop a group of youths who were hassling a cleaning woman.

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Weekend ski and winter sports report: 23-25 March

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:53:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This is our last official report for the season, with flowers coming out and trees budding on the Swiss plains. It doesn’t mean, of course, that you have to stop skiing, and if we spot anything of special interest, we’ll post it on GenevaLunch. See details below for the big x-treme event [...]

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Iraq: series of bomb blasts, death toll now 46

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:49:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iraq is being hit by a series of deadly bomb blasts, with the death toll Tuesday 20 March inching up towards 5. , Close to 200 people are reported to be injured. The attacks come a week before an Arab League meeting hosted by Iraq. CNN says the attacks took place in [...]

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Valais has second A9 deadly accident this week

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:31:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Accident just 24km from Sion, where injured children, families were being prepared to fly to Belgium GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It has been a particularly deadly week on Swiss roads, and canton Valais, still reeling from the Sierre autoroute tunnel crash Tuesday that killed 28 people, had a second fatal accident on the A9 Friday, bringing [...]

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Sierre bus crash: all but 4 injured children sent home to Belgium Friday

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:18:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Girl at Chuv out of coma, but all three there considered still “in danger” GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – In an extraordinary development Friday, all but four of the children injured in the bus crash Tuesday 13 March in a Sierre autoroute tunnel were flown back home Friday: 8 of the less injured left the hospital and [...]

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Sierre bus crash: dead have now all been identified

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:56:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – All 28 people who died in a bus crash Tuesday 13 March in Sierre have now been identified, say police. The formal identifications are necessary in order for police to release the remains to families. The bodies will now be flown back to Belgium Friday on the two airplanes made available by [...]

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Sierre bus crash, latest from police in Valais

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:04:56 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA / SION, SWITZERLAND – The death toll from Tuesday night’s horrific bus crash in Sierre, canton Valais remained at 28 Wednesday, according to Canton Valais police. But in a rundown of the condition of the 24 passengers who are hospitalized with injuries there was good news and bad 20 hours after the accident. The [...]

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Incomprehension, grief colour the town of Sierre

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:15:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss, Belgian heads of state in Sion to try to understand crash, help families World media flock to small city in mid-Alps to register the shock GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Mid-March is the time when Sierre, known as Switzerland’s sunshine city, steps out of its winter clothes. Spring is in the air despite the still snowy [...]

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Belgian school bus crash in Swiss tunnel: impact of an “extreme violence” (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:41:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SIERRE / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in Valais are trying to piece together the cause of the Tuesday night 13 March accident they are describing as “of an extreme violence”. Twenty-eight people, 22 of whom were children about age 12, lost their lives in the crash at 21:15 Tuesday night. Valais police chief Christian Varone [...]

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Horrific accident in Sierre autoroute tunnel: Belgian bus crash kills 28 (Update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:54:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bus carried two classes of 12-year-olds; 24 injured Update 07:10 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A bus from Belgium, carrying two school classes of children who had just finished a week of ski holidays in the Val d’Anniviers, crashed in an autoroute tunnel in Sierre late Tuesday 13 March, killing 28 people and leaving 24 injured, Valais [...]

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