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At least four people are killed and two others are missing after landslides and torrential floods in Ticino and Valais, Switzerland.
2024-06-30

Eight people in Austria and two others in Switzerland are killed by a series of avalanches.
2023-02-5

An icefall kills two mountain climbers and injures nine others in the Alps of Valais, Switzerland.
2022-05-27

Switzerland says it has been informed that a female Swiss hostage has been killed in Mali by jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The exact circumstances of the killing are still unclear, according to Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.
2020-10-9

An avalanche at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland injures four, one seriously, with fears that up to a dozen skiers may have been hit according to witnesses. 240 rescuers including police and army search the affected piste area. No further victims are immediately found, or missing persons reported.
2019-02-19

At least five French Foreign Legion soldiers are killed and six injured in an avalanche while on a training exercise in the Alps, close to the Italian border. The soldiers were members of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment.
2016-01-18

An avalanche kills three and injures one at the Les Deux Alpes ski resort in Isère département of the French Alps. Officials are searching for other possible victims.
2016-01-13

At least 28 Belgians are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
2012-03-13

The Gotthard Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps becomes the world's longest railway tunnel, as final breakthrough occurs on the east bore.
2010-10-15

One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps.
2010-07-23