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FIVE PEOPLE DIED when a glider and a small plane crashed in the Swiss Alps at the weekend, police said Monday, adding that they were investigating whether the two accidents were linked.
A small plane with the pilot and three other people on board, including a child, crashed on the Piz Neir mountain in eastern Switzerland on Saturday, killing everyone onboard, regional police in the canton of Graubunden said in a statement.
The wreckage was found on Sunday by rescue workers out looking for a glider that crashed nearby on Saturday, killing the pilot.
The glider had crashed about one kilometre away from where the plane was found, at an altitude of 2,700 metres (8,850 feet) above the village of Bivio.
Poor weather had made it impossible for rescue workers to access that crash site when they first got the call Saturday evening.
The formal identification of the victims had yet to be completed on Monday, the police statement said.
The Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB) was investigating the cause of the accidents, including whether there was a connection between them, it added.
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So they are protesting that a guy committed suicide after being caught illegally selling swordfish. Did I read the article correctly?
Just read the (far more professional) article in The Guardian. Seems the poor guy slipped as he was trying to retrieve his fish from the truck. Horrible way to go.
The last relatively stable country in North Africa… I smell another “Arab Spring” here…
@mac.kerel:
Yeah and wait for it…”and it was all instigated & orchestrated by the USA, the UK, the French and of course the USA’s Zionist allies the Israelies”! In fact they must have been one of them that threw him and his fish into the garbage truck in the first place!
It has got so bad now that they will soon be blaming one or all of the above for the 1st and 2nd World Wars and all things in between and before!!!
Hello Journal.ie
So the death of one guy in Morocco is a headline for Irish people? Nothing happening perhaps on the emerald isle? Without being disrespectful to this individual, surely there are thousand more injustices on a larger scale you COULD be reporting on? Some of them might even concern Ireland?
Think it’s to do with the implications of another potential Arab Spring movement
Believe it or not some people are interested in international news too
yes while your at it write strongly worded letters to rte and tv3 insisting they stop broadcasting world news during the news slots. if only we could turn off the Internet in Ireland too so none of us have to be poisoned with information from around the globe.
@deisecelt: You miss the point completely. You must have turned off from the outside world in order to be that obtuse.
@David O’Brien: The death of one man in bin lorry, is seldom regarded as INTERNATIONAL news. This is local Moroccan news. There are many things happening in the Arab world in the north African states that are international news. I am merely pointing out, the oddity of this single story being highlighted by the journal.ie. However we could always just read what is posted without ever asking questions. Perhaps that is preferable to you?
So we have idiots that think a nationwide protest in Morocco shouldn’t make the papers ?
@Bernard O’Brien: Well conclusions like yours make me give up in despair. Read what was written not what you want to see……..
@Colm Maguire: When you are in a hole it is considered a good idea to stop digging. One of the implications for Ireland and the rest of Europe is that if Morocco follows the rest of North Africa into anarchy it will mean more people in boats, lots more people in boats, trying to reach Europe and given that you can see Europe – Gibraltar and Spain – from the Moroccan coast what is already a flood has the potential to turn into a tsunami.
they love an old protest these arabs, a man gets killed in an accident and theres an investigation. happens here a lot on building sites, farms etc, we don’t see this. very aggressive. let the investigation do its job.
Not making a link to the tragic story above but if you are just looking for a good read, check out the Clintons dealings with Morocco – made my head spin… https://theintercept.com/2015/04/22/inside-morocco-clinton-influence-campaign/
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