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Five skiers killed in Austrian avalanche

Five skiers from the Czech Republic have been killed after an avalanche at an Austrian resort in ...
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15.46 6 Feb 2016


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Five skiers killed in Austrian avalanche

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Five skiers from the Czech Republic have been killed after an avalanche at an Austrian resort in the Alps.

A police spokesman said the avalanche in the Tyrol region has also buried about a dozen people.

Authorities gave no immediate details on the conditions of the other casualties in the incident, which happened around noon local time.

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The avalanche happened in the Wattental valley, around 40km southeast of Innsbruck in western Austria.

The deaths follow a number of deadly snowslides in the French Alps this season.

Five soldiers from the French Foreign Legion died near the resort of Valfrejus on 18 January, with a sixth dying days later in hospital.

Two French teenagers and a Ukrainian tourist were killed on 14 January when a teacher took the students onto a closed skiing piste at the Deux-Alpes resort.

The teacher, who was seriously injured, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.


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