Seventh victim of the storm in the Maggia Valley has been identified
Published: Thursday, Jul 25th 2024, 17:00
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The Ticino authorities have identified the body of a woman who was found dead in the Maggia riverbed near Cevio TI on July 22. She was a 67-year-old Swiss woman who lived in the Locarno region. This was announced by the Ticino cantonal police on Thursday.
The press release does not say how the woman died. However, it is likely that she was one of at least seven people killed in the violent storm in the Maggia Valley at the end of June.
Three bodies had already been recovered in this region over the weekend of the storm. Three female tourists from Germany were victims of a landslide in the hamlet of Fontana in the Bavona Valley, a side valley of the upper Maggia Valley. Emergency services later found two bodies in the Maggia riverbed near Riveo.
A body was also found twice near Cevio - on July 18 and July 22. The person found near Cevio on July 18 was a 66-year-old from the canton of Basel-Landschaft. One person is still missing.
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