The eight missing were hiking Wednesday on the Piz Cengalo mountain, near the Italian border, when the landslide struck. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPThe 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. "We will not now be able to find anyone," Mittner was cited by Swiss media as saying. The eight missing - four Germans, two Austrians and two Swiss - were hiking Wednesday on the Piz Cengalo mountain, near the Italian border, when the landslide struck, sending mud, rocks and dirt cascading down the mountain. The landslide was so severe that the vibrations set off seismometers across Switzerland, measuring the equivalent of a 3.0-magnitude earthquake, according to the Swiss Seismological Service.

Source: The Local August 26, 2017 14:37 UTC