{"id":25631,"date":"2024-04-02T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T03:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25631"},"modified":"2024-04-02T22:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T03:43:40","slug":"american-teenager-2-other-people-killed-in-avalanche-near-swiss-resort-of-zermatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25631","title":{"rendered":"American teenager, 2 other people killed in avalanche near Swiss resort of Zermatt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">GENEVA &#8212;&nbsp;An American teenager and two other people were killed in avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt, police said Tuesday. One person was flown to a hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The avalanche occurred at about 2 p.m. Monday in an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, above the resort and below the famed Matterhorn peak. Rescuers recovered three bodies and the injured skier, a 20-year-old Swiss man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The victims were a 15-year-old American boy, as well as a man and a woman whose identification has not yet been concluded, police in Valais canton (state) said in a statement. They gave no further details, but said they currently have no information on the woman&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Prosecutors were investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Last month, five members of a Swiss family were found dead after going missing while cross-country skiing near the Matterhorn in difficult weather conditions. Authorities abandoned the search for a sixth missing person days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/american-teenager-2-people-killed-avalanche-swiss-resort-108742485\">Abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA &#8212;&nbsp;An American teenager and two other people were killed in avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt, police said Tuesday. One person was flown to a hospital with serious injuries. The avalanche occurred at about 2 p.m. Monday in an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, above the resort and below the famed Matterhorn peak. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[27625,1300,27623,24759,27624],"class_list":["post-25631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-american-teenagers","tag-avalanche","tag-off-piste-area","tag-switzerland","tag-two-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25633,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25631\/revisions\/25633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}