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Mountain rescue Salzburg: A group of young skiers was surprised by an avalanche
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Mountain rescue Salzburg
During ski tours in Austria, several people were buried in snow avalanches over the weekend.
Three did not survive and several skiers were injured.
An avalanche broke off when a group of eleven was on the Lackenspitze near Tweng in Salzburg's Lungau, as the police announced.
Three people were buried in the process.
Two of the three people buried were found dead.
Another could be reanimated and taken to the hospital, but died there, the police said.
A 200-meter-wide slab tore away skiers
The young people from Austria, all under 30 years old, are likely to have triggered an avalanche on the ascent to about 2,400 meters just below the summit, it said.
A slab of snow 200 meters wide and 500 meters long came off and carried away a total of eight people.
The three people buried were partially four and a half meters under the snow.
The other five were reportedly not buried, but some were injured.
In Styria, too, two Austrian ski tourers were swept away by an avalanche on Saturday.
A 29-year-old was partially buried on the Sonntagskogel.
He was rescued and taken to the hospital.
His 27-year-old companion was hit by the avalanche, but was able to trigger her avalanche airbag.
She wasn't buried under snow with it.
Fok / dpa