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A group of Swiss World Cup fans booked a hotel in the wrong Russian city, confusing Rostov-on-Don where Switzerland was playing a match with Brazil with Rostov Veliky, which is 1,281 kilometers to the north, officials said.

The fans called police when they could not find the hotel they had booked in Rostov-on-Don after their plane arrived in the large southern Russia city, local police said on June 18.

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