Three dead and five seriously injured in Alps avalanche
Two French school pupils and a Ukrainian skier have died after an avalanche in the French Alps.
Five others, four pupils and a teacher, are seriously injured according to French media.
14-year-old boy reported dead after Alps avalanche
French television are reporting that a 14-year-old boy from Lyon has died following an avalanche on a ski trail in the Alps.
France TV said three others are seriously wounded.
"Five people have been found and searches are still underway," the head of the police unit, Bernard Host, told Reuters.
Three of the victims were in cardiac arrest, police said.
The avalanche occurred on a black-rated slope that had been closed after several days of heavy snowfall, the mayor of a nearby town told regional newspaper Le Dauphine Libere.
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