A fifth person has died after a group of 14 skiers were caught up in a storm, police said Tuesday, after the bodies of two climbers were also found elsewhere in the Swiss Alps. “Late in the evening on April 30, a fifth victim died,” police in Valais canton said in a statement. Bad weather in the Pigne d’Arolla area of the Swiss Alps on Sunday had caught the group of skiers by surprise. Three others died soon after they reached hospital, followed by the fifth death late Monday. The victims were Italian, French and German nationals, police said, adding that efforts were under way to formally identify them.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 01, 2018 07:41 UTC