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Police revise number of Gotthard victims

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Previously, Ticino cantonal police had said 11 people were killed following the collision of two trucks in the tunnel, which sparked a devastating fire. Police said on Monday afternoon that nine victims have been identified and a tenth victim remains unidentified, however, there has been some confusion over the number of people confirmed dead or…

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Safety experts examine Gotthard tunnel

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Swiss police say the current death toll from the accident stands at eleven and they have not ruled out the possibility of finding another five to ten bodies. Twenty-three people are still reported missing, although this number could include people who were not in the Gotthard tunnel at the time of the disaster, but whose…

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Recovery efforts in Gotthard proceeding faster than expected

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 According to Giovanni Gado, spokesman for the canton police, the efforts to stabilise the damaged 250-metre section of the tunnel were finished successfully on Saturday night. Swiss police say there is hope that the number of people killed in the inferno, which was triggered when two trucks collided head-on, may not rise above the 11…

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Gotthard disaster disrupts European traffic flow

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Swiss alpine passes cannot handle heavy commercial traffic, said Michel Egger, deputy head of the Federal Office for Roads. He is a member of the Swiss crisis team set up in response to the accident, which occurred on Wednesday when two trucks collided in the Gotthard tunnel, on a main European north-south route. The accident…

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Swiss ask EU to reroute traffic after Gotthard disaster

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Swiss alpine passes cannot handle heavy commercial traffic, said Michel Egger, deputy head of the Federal Office for Roads. He is a member of the Swiss crisis team set up in response to the accident, which occurred on Wednesday when two trucks collided in the Gotthard tunnel, on a main European north-south route. The accident…

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Gotthard disaster reveals limits of tunnel safety

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 “Compared with other tunnels in Europe, and all over the world, the safety level in the Gotthard Tunnel is quite high,” says Hubert Roegg, director of the Swiss Institute for Safety and Security. “But there is certainly more that could to be done.” Safety measures in the Gotthard were overhauled in the wake of the…

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Dozens still missing after Gotthard tunnel inferno

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Fire crews are working to stabilise sections of the tunnel’s roof, which is in danger of collapsing. Parts of it have already caved in because of the blaze’s extremely high temperatures, which reached 1,000 degrees Celsius. Ticino police said at least one woman and ten men are confirmed dead, and they expect to find dozens…

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Tunnel fire prompts calls for second road through Gotthard

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Leading Swiss motoring associations have demanded that authorities speed up efforts to construct another road. In statements published after the accident on Wednesday they said the authorities would be irresponsible and negligent if they continued to block the construction of an additional route linking central Switzerland with the Ticino region. The transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger,…

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Fire crews still struggling to reach Gotthard accident site

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Fire crews returned to the scene in the early hours of Thursday, and were advancing slowly towards the accident site with hoses and blasts of highly pressurised air. The temperature close to the blaze dropped from 1,000 to 200 degrees Celsius overnight, but remains too high for the firefighters to approach ground zero. The authorities…

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Swiss ask EU to reroute traffic after Gotthard disaster

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