A 12-year-old dies while falling with his car on a rock wall.

Wednesday, a child of 12 years old s & # Is crushed in a car in a car from Lower Valais. Towards evening, the boy died at the hospital in Sion, according to Valais cantonal police

The accident occurred in the morning at 07:45 in the city of Nendaz, when 39 a family has picked apricots, according to the release. The boy climbed into a car that had been parked on the road to the orchard.

For reasons that were not yet clear, the vehicle began to move. The car hit two fruit trees, dropped 20 meters above a rock wall and stopped after 30 meters in a forest.

After first emergency medical care at the scene, the boy was taken to the Air Glacier Hospital. Customs flew. The prosecutor initiates an investigation.

A six-year-old boy killed by stone

The sunny weather of the holiday season is currently attracting many people to the mountains. There are several people killed in the last two days.

A six-year-old boy was killed by a rock near the Morteratsch glacier in Engadine. He was so badly injured that he died at the scene of the accident, as the Graubünden police said Wednesday. The six-year-old spent Tuesday with his family in Pontresina, at the foot of the Morteratsch Glacier. According to Graubünden police broke a rock from a scree, the boy hit his head.

The family members and third parties immediately took care of the boys and alarmed the rescuers. Despite being resurrected by a crew of the Rega, the six-year-old boy died at the scene of the accident

Taken to the depths of the march

The Matterhorn also had a dramatic impact. A man and a woman were traveling on the Italian side of the Matterhorn. One of the two lost his balance around noon and pulled the other to about 1300 meters, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.

A mountain guide who had met the two mountaineers at the age of 30 before the disaster, witnessed the accident and sounded the alarm. The identity of the two victims is still not clear. They did not carry identity documents. The rescue service of the army in the Italian city of Cervinia is in contact with the Swiss authorities

Also a 72 year old vagabond has crashed. She fell to Blenio in Ticino about 100 meters into the depth and could only be recovered dead. The Swiss Ticino traveled with several acquaintances, as reported by the cantonal police of Ticino. Why she left the mountain track and plunged into the depths, was initially unclear.

kayakers on Linth capsized

Also on the water there was at least one incident on Wednesday. A 52-year-old athlete was killed in a kayak in Glarnerland on Linth.

Glarus police were informed shortly after noon that a kayak had capsized at Ennenda's rolling mill. The man who was in the boat was submerged in the water, the kayak was driving without a driver on the river above the weir.

Even before the rescuers arrived at the scene of the accident, the rescuers had recovered the wounded. In critical condition, the kayak athlete was first driven to the Glarus Cantonal Hospital. Subsequently, Rega took him to the University Hospital Zurich

27-year-old driver Töff after the collision

After all, there were several accidents on Swiss roads. A Tuesday night in La Chaux-de-Fonds was deadly. In a collision with a car, a 27-year-old motorcyclist was killed. The man died on the spot

The accident occurred at 22:35 on the road to the Pass of the Vue-des-Alpes towards Neuchâtel, as announced on Wednesday the cantonal police and the prosecutor of Neuchâtel. At La Main's La Sagne, the Töff driver met a car driven by Neuchâtel, 26 years old. (sda)