{"id":171,"date":"2026-09-10T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/?p=171"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:15:12","slug":"coach-crash-kills-several-people-in-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Coach crash kills several people in Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/sagor.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/94f7da60-ad56-11f1-8128-99eda56e535a.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sagor.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/94f7da60-ad56-11f1-8128-99eda56e535a.png.webp 800w, https:\/\/sagor.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/94f7da60-ad56-11f1-8128-99eda56e535a.png-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/sagor.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/94f7da60-ad56-11f1-8128-99eda56e535a.png-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tourist coach has crashed in the south-eastern Swiss Alps, leaving several people dead and several injured, local police say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bus overturned between Susch and Zernez in the Graub\u00fcnden &#8211; also known as Grisons &#8211; region late on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large team of rescuers equipped with several helicopters was deployed to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 48 Dutch passengers were on board the bus, according to a spokeswoman for the General Dutch Association of Travel Companies on behalf of tour operator OAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spokesperson told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf they could not yet say how many people had been killed or injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images on Swiss news sites show a coach lying on its side beside a narrow country road on which stand numerous ambulances while groups of rescuers work at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coach reportedly left the Netherlands on Monday and was on a day trip to Switzerland from Austria when the crash happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zernez is the entry point for visitors to the Swiss National Park, a vast Alpine reserve stretching more than 100 sq km (40 sq miles) across the mountainous Engadine valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tourist coach has crashed in the south-eastern Swiss Alps, leaving several people dead and several injured, local police say. The bus overturned between Susch and Zernez in the Graub\u00fcnden &#8211; also known as Grisons &#8211; region late on Thursday afternoon. A large team of rescuers equipped with several helicopters was deployed to the scene&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagor.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}