Emergency Relief Efforts Underway After Devastating Swiss Floods

Emergency services continue their search for two missing individuals after heavy flooding and landslides in southern Switzerland. One body has been recovered. Over 200 rescue personnel are engaged in the effort, following severe rains that caused rivers to overflow and buried several homes in the Misox valley.

Emergency services found a dead body and kept up a search for two other people missing on Sunday after flooding and landslides in southern Switzerland, police said. Some 200 people, drones, helicopters and rescue dogs were drafted in to the rescue and clean-up effort after heavy rains on Friday caused flooding in the Misox valley in the canton of Grisons, police said.

Three people had been reported missing. The body of one person was found in a river, local police commander William Kloter told reporters. Some 124 mm (4.88 inches) of rain fell in the valley on Friday, with 63 mm (2.48 inches) falling in a one-hour period.

Several rivers burst their banks in the valley, covering roads, fields and villages with rubble, earth and wood. Three houses were buried.

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