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Search for eight missing in Alps called off: Swiss police

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:36:48 +0200

The search for eight hikers missing in the Swiss Alps has been called off, police announced on Saturday, three days after they were lost in a massive landslide.

Dead couple's cat emerges two weeks after landslide tragedy

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:14:00 +0200

Two weeks after tragedy struck, a spark of good news has emerged from the Nachterstedt landslide: a cat belonging to the couple killed in the accident has survived, Bild newspaper reported on Friday.

Landslide tips house into lake

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:44:00 +0200

A violent landslide tipped a house in Nachterstedt in Saxony-Anhalt into a lake early on Saturday morning. Three people are missing and feared dead.