{"id":60545,"date":"2026-09-11T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-alps-coach-crash-kills-five-and-injures-dozens-police-say\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:00:26","slug":"swiss-alps-coach-crash-kills-five-and-injures-dozens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swiss-alps-coach-crash-kills-five-and-injures-dozens-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Alps coach crash kills five and injures dozens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Five people have died and dozens are injured after a tourist coach crashed in the south-eastern Swiss Alps<\/b>, <\/b>police say.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Dutch tour bus hit a safety barrier in a roadworks area, left the road and overturned between Susch and Zernez in the Graub\u00fcnden region late on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Swiss police said on Friday that the deceased had not yet been identified. <\/p>\n

They added that the other 40 people on board the coach – whose injuries ranged from serious to minor – had been transported to hospitals by rescue helicopters and ambulance crews.<\/p>\n

The coach reportedly left the Netherlands on Monday and was on a day trip to Switzerland from Austria when the crash happened.<\/p>\n

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said his thoughts were everyone involved, and King Willem-Alexander and Queen M\u00e1xima said their hearts went out to everyone affected by “this great tragedy”.<\/p>\n

Swiss President Guy Parmelin posted on X that he was “deeply shocked” by the incident and offered his “sincere condolences” to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Five people have died and dozens are injured after a tourist coach crashed in the south-eastern Swiss Alps, police say. The Dutch tour bus hit a safety barrier in a roadworks area, left the road and overturned between Susch and Zernez in the Graub\u00fcnden region late on Thursday afternoon. Swiss police said on Friday that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60547,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions\/60547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}