More than 100 German school children and teachers had to be rescued, most of them airlifted to safety, after getting stuck on an Alpine hiking trail described online as a 'classic after-work tour,' police said.
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A file photo shows a view from Spuller Schafberg mountain to the Lechquellen mountains over the Lech valley, in Vorarlberg, Austria.— More than 100 German school children and teachers had to be rescued, most of them airlifted to safety, after getting stuck on an Alpine hiking trail described online as a"classic after-work tour," police said Wednesday.
Two pupils within the group, from the southwestern German city of Ludwigshafen, had slipped, suffering minor injuries, and some were panicking, a police statement said.Police said the group had checked online and had believed the trail in Vorarlberg state in western Austria would be easier than it turned out to be.
"Due to a query in an internet search engine, the teaching staff decided on a route that was no longer signposted," police said in the statement."The path is no longer in official tour guides... it was relatively difficult and exposed," state police spokesman Wolfgang Duer told AFP, adding that for his staff,"the unusual part was the amount of people having to be rescued.
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