WORLD NEWS: SWISS COUPLE FOUND ON GLACIER 75 YEARS AFTER THEY WENT MISSING

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The mysterious disappearance of a Swiss couple 75 years ago, their remains has been found in the Alps preserved in a receding glacier. giving a closure to the uncertainty for their family,  relatives and the media.

Their bodies were found lying next to each other in the Diableret massif in southern Switzerland on Thursday, along with backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch, according to Le Matin daily.

The couple left their village  Chandolin in Valais canton on foot at the time before mysteriusly disappeared, leaving behind five sons and two daughters. Marcelin Dumoulin, was a 40-year-old shoemaker then, and his wife Francine was a schoolteacher aged 37. A DNA was to be carried to definitely identifies their bodies but Maryline Dumoulin told AFP police were "99 percent" certain the remains were of her grandparents, who went missing on August 15, 1942.

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