In the night on Saturday are in the North of Sweden six Swiss were killed. The men were after information of the “Aftonbladet” in a minibus on the road, when they collided the car in the early Morning head-on with a truck. The vehicle was thrown in, apparently in a ditch.

A seventh occupant of the minibus survived and was flown to the hospital. In the case of the victim is, according to the EDA to young men. According to the information of 20 minutes, most coming from the Bernese Oberland. You should have been on the way back from their long holiday. The Swiss wanted to look at in the Northern polar lights.

“The families are notified, but the official identification of the victims is not yet complete,” says police spokeswoman Maria Jakobsson. The traffic conditions at the time of accident had been difficult. “The road was smooth, it was dark and the Wind blew strength in the storm.” For more information, hopefully of a truck driver and a survivor of the Swiss. “The two Survivors are in shock.”

Federal Council Cassis speaks of compassion from

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed the accident and the six Swiss deaths. “We take with great concern the serious car accident of knowledge,” says spokeswoman Noémie Charton.

The Regional consular centre in Switzerland, in Stockholm was in contact with the local authorities and have sent a member of staff in the accident region to stand with the families of the victims to the side, wrote to the EDA.

The crisis management centre and the consular Directorate of the FDFA and the Federal police fedpol would do their best to support the families of the victims and of the injured Person it was said in the message. The foreign Minister, Ignazio Cassis said the families of the victims his condolences.

Locals speak of the “death curve”

The accident occurred North-West of Masugnsbyn between Vittangi and Pajala. A few hours before the tragic accident were in the same place already in an accident, such as Aftonbladet reported. The deadly road section is therefore referred to by the Locals as “death curve.”

“everyone knows this curve and continues with 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.” Foreign, by contrast, would not know the pitfalls of this curve and to the signalled maximum speed of 90 kilometres an hour, told Göran Lantto, a local resident, in a TV Interview.

He was expecting now by the Swedish Ministry of transport that finally something will unternonmmen to make the dangerous place safe.

Created: 13.01.2019, 10:48 PM

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