Two Japanese mountaineers die on Swiss Matterhorn peak

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Basel, Switzerland, Shawwal 27, 1436, August 12, 2015, SPA -- Two Japanese men have been found dead on Matterhorn mountain, Swiss police confirmed Wednesday, saying that one of them froze to death and the other died after a 100-metre fall, dpa reported. Both mountaineers had encountered worsening weather conditions on Saturday as they descended from the 4,478-metre peak on the Swiss-Italian border. Fog obstructed search-and-rescue operations, and the man who died from hypothermia was recovered only on Monday. On Wednesday, police announced that the second man had been found the previous evening, some 100 meters below the spot where his climbing partner had died. --SPA 15:17 LOCAL TIME 12:17 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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