valais canton


Four in Swiss train accident ‘critical’

Swiss authorities confirmed Saturday that a 64-year-old Japanese woman was killed when a popular tourist train derailed in the Alps, and said four other Japanese citizens were in a critical condition. Some 42 people were injured when three first-class wagons of the Glacier Express travelling between the ski resorts of Zermatt and St Moritz derailed Friday. Nicole Bayard, a spokeswoman from western Switzerland’s Valais canton, told AFP that “nine are seriously injured including four who...