A seven-year-old boy has died in eastern Switzerland after a homemade igloo collapsed on him and his father, police said on Wednesday. The accident happened Tuesday in Tarasp in southeastern Switzerland when the boy and his father were both inside the igloo. Police in Graubuenden state said the collapse buried both the boy and his father under snow at around 11am on Tuesday. That's the polar vortex, which spins counterclockwise like a whirling top above the surface of the Earth. Meteorologists say that this particular polar vortex is one of the nastiest and largest they have seen since records began in the late 1950s.

Source: Daily Mail February 17, 2021 18:22 UTC