Three French skiers died in an avalanche in Norway on Thursday.
Three French skiers died Thursday in an avalanche in Lyngen, Norway, in the far north region of Troms, police have learned.
“The three victims are French,” commissioner Karl Erik Thomassen told AFP.
Aged about sixty years, their identity has not been made public.
The victims were part of a group of a total of ten French people traveling together, nine of whom were skiing at the time of the snowslide, which occurred on the Kavringtinden massif.
Their six companions, uninjured, were able to dig them out of the snow and try to resuscitate their three comrades, explained Mr. Thomassen.
But “when the ambulance helicopter landed, the doctor pronounced them dead,” said the head of the rescue operation.
An avalanche warning was issued in the region after several recent snowslides.
On March 30, one person was killed and seven others were injured in two avalanches in Lyngen. And on Wednesday, two other people were surprised by an avalanche in the same area, without being injured.