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Three people have died after a small single-engine aeroplane crashed in the Alps in southwest Switzerland, it emerged today.
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Valais cantonal police said in a statement that the aircraft collided with the northern slope in the area of Fluhalp on Tuesday, near the mountain resort of Leukerbad.
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All three passengers aboard perished, the police said, adding that they were working to identify the victims.
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Emergency services rushed to the site, with three helicopters and two rescue specialists deployed.
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After taking off from Lugano in the southern Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, the aeroplane made a stop in the Valais city of Sion before heading off towards the Buochs aerodrome in the central canton of Nidwalden.
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Residents alerted emergency services after seeing smoke rising from the aircraft.
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The federal Swiss authorities have opened an investigation into the causes of the accident.
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Meanwhile, a criminal investigation is being led by the Office of the Attorney General of the Confederation, in collaboration with the Valais cantonal police, according to local authorities.
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Three people died on Tuesday after a small single-engine aeroplane crashed in the Alps in southwest Switzerland
A picture of the crash site shared by local police showed the wreckage of the plane on a mountainside.
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'Shortly after 4 p.m., for reasons yet to be determined, the aircraft collided with the northern slope of a mountain in the Fluhalp area of Leukerbad.
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Signs of smoke were subsequently reported in the region,' a police statement said.
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The tragedy in the Swiss Alps comes just days after several people died after a coach carrying tourists crashed and flipped over on a mountain road in Switzerland.
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The tour coach carrying 48 people overturned in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubunden, the largest holiday region in Switzerland, at 8pm last Thursday,
The vehicle hit a safety barrier before flipping over and plunging down the embankment, a local police spokesperson told Swiss media.
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Emergency services swarmed the scene, working around the coach as it lay on its side on an embankment next to the carriageway.
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Helicopters were seen landing near the incident.
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The Dutch Federation of Travel Agencies (ANVR) identified the coach as belonging to Oad, a Dutch tour company that runs holiday trips across Europe.
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It added all 48 passengers were from the Netherlands.
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Local authorities confirmed the fatalities, though they have not released the number of victims nor nationalities.
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'Several people died in the coach crash in Susch.
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Several others were also injured,' the cantonal police said on X, without giving details on the circumstances of the accident or the victims' identities.
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A police spokesman said that the force did not wish to provide a more detailed toll until the victims' families had been informed.
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This is a breaking news story.
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