Five people were killed and 40 others injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed this week, police said on Friday.
The accident happened at 4:45 pm (1445 GMT) Thursday between the communes of Susch and Zernez in the far-eastern canton of Graubunden.
The coach “veered off the road in a construction zone and overturned”, Graubunden police said in a statement, adding that “of the 45 adults on board, five died”.
Three people had also been seriously hurt, while 37 others had suffered moderate or minor injuries, police said, adding that an investigation had been opened into the circumstances that led to the accident.
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