CHILDREN KILLED.
Rock Avalanche Falls On
Swiss School.
FIVE ASCERTAINED DEAD
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
BERNE, April 10.
A rock avalanche crashed on a children's boarding school at Flints, killing five of the 28 inmates. Rescuers extricated eleven survivors, but the fate of the remaining twelve has not yet been ascertained.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 84, 11 April 1939, Page 9
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