Four people are killed and fifth seriously hurt after ‘jumping from their apartment’ in Switzerland

Four people appeared to have jumped to their death from their apartment in the Swiss resort of Montreux on Lake Geneva, with a fifth person hospitalised in a serious condition, police said on Thursday.  

The four victims were found dead at the foot of a seven-storey building in Montreux.

The Vaud cantonal police said in a tweet: ‘Five people were found at the foot of a building. One of the five victims has been hospitalised and is in serious condition. The four others are dead.’

Alexandre Bisenz, police spokesperson, told the 20 Minutes newspaper that the five people appeared to have jumped from their apartment, near the town’s lakeside casino, for reasons unknown. 

The five people ‘would have visibly thrown themselves into the void from the apartment,’ Bisenz told news agency Keystone-ATS, adding that the police were alerted to the incident by passersby.  

Four people appeared to have jumped to their death in the Swiss resort of Montreux on Lake Geneva, with a fifth person hospitalised in a serious condition, police said on Thursday

The four victims were found dead at the foot of a seven-story building in Montreux

Police officers take samples on a balcony after five people appeared to have jumped from their apartment, in Montreux, Switzerland, on Thursday

Bisenz said that an investigation is underway and the five people were found at about 7 a.m. Thursday outside a building near the city’s famed Casino Barriere. He declined to provide further details. 

Montreux, a bucolic lakeside city, is best known as a tourist hot spot and in particular for its annual jazz festival.

Bisenz declined to indicate if the victims were Swiss nationals or foreigners. 

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