A 44-year-old experienced diver from the canton of Vaud died after plunging into Lake Geneva near the site of a shipwreck from the 19th century near Montreux, police said on Sunday.
UPDATED: City police found the bodies of two foreigners in the Limmat River in Zurich on Sunday, while two people drowned in the canton of Saint Gallen as a sweltering heatwave continued for a fifth day in much of Switzerland.
A 35-year-old Moroccan man reportedly fasting for Ramadan drowned in Lake Geneva on Sunday, near a beach in Rolle in the canton of Vaud, as Switzerland braces for another heat wave.
A 55-year-old woman has died after apparently plunging into a river near Interlaken to save her husband, who in turn had jumped in the water to save the couple’s dog, Bern cantonal police said on Sunday.
A 24-year-old woman fished out of the Limmat River near Zurich last month with her four-year-old son was incarcerated and charged with attempted murder despite her denials. But no-one noticed she was pregnant.
A quick-thinking Valais supermarket manager is being credited with saving the life of a one-month-old baby boy locked in a car directly exposed to the sun.
<p><span lang="EN-US">A Swiss court has cleared a man of wrongdoing after he failed to jump into the water to save his date from drowning in Lake Geneva.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A 36-year-old Indian man drowned on Tuesday </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in Switzerland's Lake Brienz, police have said.</span></p>
