Updated on Sunday 14 August: suspect is dead, one victim also died. Read the follow up here. GENEVA – St Gallen cantonal police have confirmed a knife and arson attack at around 14:20 in a train near the Salez station between Buchs and Sennwald in northeastern Switzerland.
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Football friendly: Switzerland loses to Belgium in Geneva
GENEVA – Game was on this afternoon at the Stade de Genève where two small countries with large Eurocup football dreams faced each other off in a friendly. Unfortunately for Switzerland, it fell 2-1 to Belgium just a few minutes before the end of the game.
Murder-suicide, two people dead in Carouge, Geneva
CAROUGE, Geneva – A third homicide has taken place in canton Geneva, this time in the Acacias/Carouge area, where police reports indicate a man has shot a woman dead in the street, before killing himself.
The Manor free fruit photo that made a shop owner famous in French-speaking Switzerland
GENEVA – When Vinze Berardy set himself to go shopping for his small business at the Manor supermarket in Sion, he never imagined he’d find a plate full of fresh fruit that would make him famous. It wasn’t just the fruit though… but the message next to it:
Swiss students among passengers of fatal bus accident in Spain
Fourteen persons of various nationalities have died in Catalonia, most of them students from the Erasmus program, after the bus that was transporting them back from a fireworks festival crashed.
Cern Award or when art and science Collide
GENEVA – Open-minded artists and scientists collide at the world’s largest hadron lab fusion of arts and science .
Expect Delays, Geneva Airport Increases Passport Checks
GENEVA, Switzerland —The Geneva Airport announced today that it will step up its passport checks in response to a directive of the Swiss federal government, and warns of possible delays at the airport.
Police kill homicide suspect in shootout in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – A Geneva police officer has been shot in the face and a homicide suspect shot and killed by officers responding to a call in the Servette-Hoffmann area early Tuesday morning.
Strong wind warning for most of Switzerland (video)
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Swiss meteorological office, MeteoSwiss, has issued a Degree 3 alert for strong, gusty winds for most of Switzerland for the next 48 hours.
British man accused of fake credit card spree in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – A 23-year-old British national was arrested on 3 February, after allegedly trying to use a fake credit card to purchase luxury items in Geneva.
Geneva International School evacuated after bomb threat
GENEVA, Switzerland – The oldest and largest of the three campuses of the International School of Geneva, La Grande Boissière, was evacuated today Thursday after receiving a bomb threat from an anonymous source.
Get Ready to Rumble! Emergency Sirens Test Across Switzerland Today
GENEVA, Switzerland – Get ready to rumble! The annual Swiss emergency alert system testing takes place today (the first Wednesday of February) from 13:30 to 14:30. With almost 8,000 high power sirens going off at once for two hours —116 sirens alone in canton Geneva— this is a sound you won’t soon forget.
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