has been injured In a rockfall in Gadmen BE at the start of the susten pass on Saturday morning, a woman fatal. Several people had to be flown in with a helicopter out.
The rockfall happened shortly before 10.40 PM in the Gadmertal in the region of the trift bridge, as a spokeswoman for the Berne cantonal police said. The rockfall caused a large-scale operation, because the time many people in the Region on the Hiking.
According to preliminary findings, a woman with a male companion of the trift bridge was approaching on a mountain trail in the direction of the hut, Trift, when the rockfall occurred. The woman was buried by the masses of rock, such as the Canton police of Bern announced on Saturday evening.
Multiple people flown
in Spite of immediately initiated rescue measures by a Crew of Air-Glaciers, on the spot, could only of the death of the woman to be found. Her companion remained according to the current state of knowledge, unharmed. He was flown by Rega out.
A section of the mountain wall the road has been buried by the rockfall. The road had to be closed for security reasons for several hours. Several persons in the valley in the direction of the bridge Trift were on the road, had to be flown by helicopter out. As the cantonal police reported that could open the way to investigations by geologists in the meantime, again.
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Created: 31.08.2019, 14:38 PM