Sunday 30 March 2014

French Pyrenees: avalanche kills two and seriously injures a third

The three French nationals had gone snowshoeing near the village of Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs in the Pyrenees when the avalanche struck on a 300-metre (1,000-feet) stretch.One of them, a 27-year-old, managed to extricate himself and alert rescue services despite serious injuries.The dead are a 25-year-old woman from the southwestern city of Toulouse and a 32-year-old man, also from the region.