Dutch family dies in hiking accident in Swiss mountains
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.
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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 Thursday, and the bodies of all three were found Friday morning about 300 meters (1,000 feet) below...