5 Germans dead in Swiss mountaineering accident

Five mountaineers who died on a 4000-metre peak in the Swiss Alps were all Germans and included a girl of around 15 years, a mountain lodge employee told DPA Wednesday. The five plunged to their deaths on Tuesday as they descended Lagginhorn mountain near the Italian border. All fell down the mountain slope as were linked together by a rope, according to Rolf Trachsel, who led the rescue operations. The victims were two fathers and their two sons and one daughter, said the employee of the lodge where the group had stayed, according to a report of DPA.