The death toll from Sunday's avalanche in the French Alps rose to six, including two mountain guides, local authorities said, APA reports citing Yahoo.
The prosecutor’s office in Bonneville, in the Haute-Savoie region, said the body of a sixth person has been found after searches resumed on Monday morning.
The prefecture of Haute-Savoie said one person was sent to the hospital with minor injuries. Eight other people were found unharmed.
No details have been provided on the identity of the victims.
The avalanche on Sunday rolled down the Armancette glacier in Contamines-Montjoie, in the Haute-Savoie region, some 30 kilometers (almost 20 miles) southwest of Chamonix.
The Alps are a prime vacation spot over France’s Easter long weekend. The local France-Bleu radio station put the size of the avalanche at 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) long and 100 meters (328 feet) wide.
National weather agency Meteo France had not issued a specific avalanche warning for Sunday, assessing the risk as “limited.”
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An avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France swept four people to their deaths and left two more missing, the officials said, APA reports citing VOA.
Among the dead were two mountain guides caught by the snow tumbling down the Armancette glacier, the prefecture for the Haute-Savoie department said.
Investigators had been called to help with the search for the two people still unaccounted for in the Alps.
One person also suffered slight injuries in the avalanche while eight others also swept up were unharmed, the prefecture said.
The avalanche covered an area of 1,000 meters by 500 meters.
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