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An endless line of trucks slowly crawl forewards on Thursday, October 25, 2001, at Mesocco, Switzerland, after an accident involing a truck and car close to Pian San Giacomo. The Swiss mountain pass which is taking most of the traffic diverted following the blaze in the St Gotthard tunnel was closed on Thursday morning after an accident, police said. One person was killed in the accident between a truck and three cars in the village of Pian San Giacomo, near the southern entrance to the tunnel under the St Bernardino pass, local police said. They warned that traffic between northern and southern Switzerland, a key commercial route for trucks between Germany and Italy, was likely to be severely disrupted. (KEYSTONE/KARL MATHIS)