{"id":14750,"date":"2026-02-21T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14750\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:12:06","slug":"avalanche-barrels-into-train-in-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14750\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche barrels into train in Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, 2026 | 9:25 PM GMT<\/p>\n<p>A passenger captured the moment an avalanche roared down a mountainside and slammed into a train near Zermatt, Switzerland, on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n<p>In video filmed by Kirsten Osborne, an Australian living in the United Kingdom, a child can be heard saying, \u201cUh-oh!\u201d as snow engulfed the train. Osborne said passengers were stranded for about two hours before being evacuated by bus.<\/p>\n<p>Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, the rail company that operates the route, said no one was injured but suspended service for the rest of the day because of elevated avalanche risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2193 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 20, 2026 | 9:25 PM GMT A passenger captured the moment an avalanche roared down a mountainside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,902,6943,17,7146],"class_list":{"0":"post-14750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-swiss-alps","11":"tag-switzerland","12":"tag-train"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}