Three German holdaymakers were confirmed dead and five more people were missing following severe storms in the Swiss region of Ticino, local police reported on Tuesday. The women from the southern state of Baden-Württemberg were said to have died in a landslide after heavy rains at the weekend. Two were 73 years old and one was 76. Their bodies were recovered after terrain collapsed on Sunday night near Fontana in the Maggia Valley, but had not been publicly identified in order to protect the privacy of the deceased and their relatives. On Monday evening, separate reports said two men and two …