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Bodies Missing in Swiss Alps for 75 Years Are Recovered, Buried


Marcelline Udry (3rd-L), one of the daugther of late Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the couple found on a receding glacier in the Swiss Alps 75 years after they had disappeared, attends her parents' funeral ceremony in front of their coffins on July 22,
Marcelline Udry (3rd-L), one of the daugther of late Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the couple found on a receding glacier in the Swiss Alps 75 years after they had disappeared, attends her parents' funeral ceremony in front of their coffins on July 22,

A Swiss couple whose bodies were found on an Alpine glacier after they went missing for nearly 75 years have been buried in Switzerland.

Swiss broadcaster SRF said the funeral of Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife, Francine, took place Saturday in a church in Saviese in southwestern Switzerland.

They were 40 and 37 when they disappeared on August 15, 1942. The couple's daughter, Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, now 79, said her parents set off on foot to feed their animals but never returned.

SRF said two daughters took part in the funeral; the other five children have already died.

The bodies were found on the Tsanfleuron Glacier at 2,615 meters (8,580 feet) above sea level. Swiss police say that because of climate change, the bodies of long-dead people have been emerging from receding glaciers.

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