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Three members of one Dutch family die in Swiss mountain accident

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BERLIN (AP) — Three Dutch citizens were found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident, police said Saturday.

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A 57-year-old woman, her 25-year-old daughter and her 22-year-old son, who had been hiking on the Rochers-de-Naye mountain, were found on Friday.

A Dutch woman and her two children have died in a hiking accident in the Vaud Alps. According to the police, the 57-year-old mother, her 25-year-old daughter, and her 22-year-old son fell around 300 meters down the Rochers de Naye above Veytaux near Montreux. The three Dutch nationals were found dead on Friday after a police search, the Swiss newspaper Freiburger Nachrichten reported.

The 57-year-old woman, her 25-year-old daughter and her 22-year-old son had set off on a hike Wednesday morning and had not been heard from since then

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Swiss police say three Dutch citizens have been found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident. Police said in a statement Saturday that the mother and her two adult children, who had been reported missing Thursday, were found near the Rochers-de-Naye mountain in the canton of Vaud. The 57-year-old woman, her 25-year-old daughter and her 22-year-old son had set off on a hike Wednesday morning and had not been heard from since then. A large-scale search operation was launched...