This handout picture released by Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico shows members of the CNSAS of Aosta Valley working after an avalanche killed 3 freeriders, and as one person is still missing in Canale degli Spagnoli (Spanish Couloir) in Courmayeur, on 4 February 2019. (Photo by HO / CNSAS / AFP)
ROME, Italy — A series of avalanches in the Alps over the weekend killed at least 10 people, emergency services and media reported.
The heaviest toll was in Italy’s northwestern Aosta Valley, with five people killed and one missing from three different avalanches.
A search was launched above the resort of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley for two French and two British nationals who failed to return to their hotel after skiing off-piste.
The search was abandoned overnight Sunday and three bodies were found on Monday morning.
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An avalanche in Italy’s Bolzano, near the Austrian border, killed an 18-year-old skier and another avalanche in neighboring Lombardy killed a snowboarder.
An avalanche in France’s Savoie region killed an off-piste skier on Saturday.
In Switzerland, an avalanche on Saturday swept away a man and a woman in the canton of Bern. The man was killed and the woman recovering in hospital.
In Austria, an avalanche hit two men aged 30 and 52, in Carinthia, killing the older man and leaving the other one unscathed.
In the Tyrol region, 10 skiers aged 17 to 59 were rescued after being hit by an avalanche.
