Couple’s bodies found in glacier

A SWISS couple who disappeared in the Alps 7 years ago have been found preserved in a receding glacier, ending decades of uncertainty for their family.

The bodies were found in the Diablerets massif in southern Switzerland. They will undergo DNA tests but police were said to be ‘99 per cent’ certain they had found Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, who went missing on August 1 , 1942.

Mr Dumoulin, a 40-year-old shoemaker, and his wife, a 37-year-old teacher, had left their village of Chandolin in Valais on foot before disappearing, orphaning five sons and two daughters.

The couple had been making an overnight trip to check on their cattle.