SWITZERLAND: AT LEAST 18 KILLED IN RIVER 'CANYONING' TRAGEDY (7)
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(28 Jul 1999) English/Nat
(28 Jul 1999) English/Nat
Survivors of a flash flood that killed at least 19 Alpine adventurers near the Swiss tourist centre of Interlaken are struggling to come to terms with the sudden disaster that devastated their tour group.
Six young Australians and New Zealanders who were taken to hospital with light injuries, including a sprained ankle and a head injury, were released late on Wednesday.
But their mental scars are expected to take longer to heal.
Some of the survivors of the flash flood near Interlaken in Switzerland were released from hospital late on Wednesday.
The accident killed at least 19 Alpine adventurers near the Swiss tourist town.
The six young Australians and New Zealanders who were released suffered light injuries, including a sprained ankle and a head injury.
But they are struggling to come to terms with the sudden disaster that devastated their tour group.
Their mental scars are expected to take longer to heal.
The Australian senator in Switzerland came to the hospital to make everything possible was being done for the survivors.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well I thought I should come up to see that the survivors, and particularly the hospital, had been able to be contacted, and that the consulate had made themselves available to them. I wanted to see that everything was in order from their point of view. They're in good spirits considering what they've been through, and I just wanted to reassure their relatives back home that everything possible was being done by the ambassador and the consulate here. (Q Have they suffered physically very badly?) They're not badly injured, no, they're not badly injured, but they are to be interviewed by a psychologist about the psychological trauma that they will inevitably go through. But considering what they've been through they're remarkably well, physically."
SUPER CAPTION: John Herron, Australian senator in Switzerland
He said he believed there was no way anyone could have seen the accident coming.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"No, I understand that it was totally unpredictable. A wall of black water came down suddenly, and the ones that survived were able to scramble out of the water as they saw it and the rest were mixed in with timber and logs as it came down and they suffered fatal injuries."
SUPER CAPTION: John Herron, Australian senator in Switzerland
A doctor who treated them at Interlaken's main hospital said as far as he could say they were doing quite well, but they were just going through the normal stages.
He said that in the beginning they were just happy they hadn't been killed, then afterwards they started to realise what had happened.
A team of psychological counsellors spent Tuesday night and Wednesday debriefing other survivors at their camp in the valleys above Interlaken.
Counselling also was given to the rescue workers who salvaged bodies after the accident.
The grim, painstaking task of identifying the victims continues.
Tight security kept journalists away from survivors and friends of victims.
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Survivors of a flash flood that killed at least 19 Alpine adventurers near the Swiss tourist centre of Interlaken are struggling to come to terms with the sudden disaster that devastated their tour group.
Six young Australians and New Zealanders who were taken to hospital with light injuries, including a sprained ankle and a head injury, were released late on Wednesday.
But their mental scars are expected to take longer to heal.
Some of the survivors of the flash flood near Interlaken in Switzerland were released from hospital late on Wednesday.
The accident killed at least 19 Alpine adventurers near the Swiss tourist town.
The six young Australians and New Zealanders who were released suffered light injuries, including a sprained ankle and a head injury.
But they are struggling to come to terms with the sudden disaster that devastated their tour group.
Their mental scars are expected to take longer to heal.
The Australian senator in Switzerland came to the hospital to make everything possible was being done for the survivors.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well I thought I should come up to see that the survivors, and particularly the hospital, had been able to be contacted, and that the consulate had made themselves available to them. I wanted to see that everything was in order from their point of view. They're in good spirits considering what they've been through, and I just wanted to reassure their relatives back home that everything possible was being done by the ambassador and the consulate here. (Q Have they suffered physically very badly?) They're not badly injured, no, they're not badly injured, but they are to be interviewed by a psychologist about the psychological trauma that they will inevitably go through. But considering what they've been through they're remarkably well, physically."
SUPER CAPTION: John Herron, Australian senator in Switzerland
He said he believed there was no way anyone could have seen the accident coming.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"No, I understand that it was totally unpredictable. A wall of black water came down suddenly, and the ones that survived were able to scramble out of the water as they saw it and the rest were mixed in with timber and logs as it came down and they suffered fatal injuries."
SUPER CAPTION: John Herron, Australian senator in Switzerland
A doctor who treated them at Interlaken's main hospital said as far as he could say they were doing quite well, but they were just going through the normal stages.
He said that in the beginning they were just happy they hadn't been killed, then afterwards they started to realise what had happened.
A team of psychological counsellors spent Tuesday night and Wednesday debriefing other survivors at their camp in the valleys above Interlaken.
Counselling also was given to the rescue workers who salvaged bodies after the accident.
The grim, painstaking task of identifying the victims continues.
Tight security kept journalists away from survivors and friends of victims.
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