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.
Teacher and pupils engulfed in French Alps avalanche
An avalanche has engulfed around 10 school pupils and a teacher, AFP reports.
Local media said that four have been injured, two seriously, in Isere on the Bellecombe Deux-Alpes trail with several missing.
The avalanche struck at 4pm local time and hit a group of secondary school pupils and their teacher.
Newspaper De Matin reported that the students were from Lyon and the teacher was found unconscious with two other students in cardiac arrest.
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