Another body found in southern Switzerland after June storms

A body was found in the Maggia river in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino on Thursday, police said. It is “likely” to be the sixth victim of devastating storms which hit the region at the end of June. “Identification should be completed by Monday at the latest,” said Renato Pizolli, spokesman for the Ticino police, interviewed by the Keystone news agency. The body was discovered during restoration work carried out by civil protection services near a shooting range in the municipality of Cevio, the police added. If confirmed as another victim of the recent bad weather, it would bring to six the number of people found dead in the upper Maggia valley. Two other people are still missing. + How Switzerland tries to deal with extreme weather events Three bodies were alredy found over the weekend. Three German tourists had been swept away in a landslide in the village of Fontana, in the Bavona valley, a side valley of Val Maggia. Emergency services also found two bodies in the Maggia ...