Several people were killed and more were injured when a coach carrying Dutch tourists in eastern Switzerland crashed, police said on Friday.

The accident happened late on Thursday afternoon local time, between the communes of Susch and Zernez in the far-eastern canton of Graubünden.

The coach hit a safety barrier before overturning and plunging down an embankment, a local police spokesman told Swiss media.

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