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5 climbers die in Swiss mountain accident

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Police say five foreign climbers have died in a mountain accident in Switzerland near the Italian border.

 

Police in the southern Valais region of Switzerland said the mountaineers successfully reached the 4,010-meter (13,155-foot) high Lagginhorn summit on Tuesday but plunged more than several hundred meters (yards) to their deaths after beginning to descend. (AP)

 

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