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Urgent: 2 people swept away by avalanche in Swiss Alps: police

Xinhua,February 19, 2018 Adjust font size:

GENEVA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two people were swept away by an avalanche that broke out Sunday in the Swiss part of the Alps in the canton of Valais, local police said late Sunday afgternoon.

At the beginning the local police said that a dozen people had been carried away in the incident. Enditem