Including a woman… 5 injured in a train derailment in the Swiss Alps

The Valais canton police announced on the X platform "Train departure at 7:00 (6:00 GMT)" On the railway linking the regions of Gobenstein and Hohten in southwestern Switzerland.

Train accidents in Switzerland

The police said in a statement that the train was carrying 29 people, and five of them were injured, including a woman who had to be transported to the hospital. The other four were given first aid at the site, and their condition did not require transport to the hospital.

The police continued: "According to preliminary investigations, avalanches may have hit the tracks before the train passed"She indicated that the Public Prosecution Office in the canton of Valais had opened an investigation to uncover the circumstances of the train derailment.

Canton Valais police spokesman Daniel Imboden said in a statement to a Swiss television station: "We noticed large amounts of snow on the tracks. But did this snow get there as a result of an avalanche or some other way? This is what the investigation will have to show"

Avalanches

On Thursday, avalanches buried part of a main road leading to the Gobenstein area, disrupting traffic for hours, without any injuries or damage recorded.

The Swiss occupy the top list of train users in Europe in terms of the number of kilometers per capita, with an average of 2,519 kilometers per capita in the year 2024, according to the agency. "Keystone-ATS" Swiss.