Three skiers — all foreign nationals — die in an avalanche in western Canada's Kootenay Rockies, bringing the total snow slide fatalities this season to a dozen, police say.
abc.net.au/news/three-skiers-dead-four-injured-after-avalanche-in-canada/102048234Three skiers have been killed and four others injured in an avalanche in western Canada's Kootenay Rockies, British Columbia, Canadian authorities have said.The three remaining skiers have been safely accounted for
Four others, including a guide, were injured when their party of 10 was caught in the avalanche around noon on Wednesday, local time, in the area of the Panama Mountain Resort, about 160 kilometres west of Calgary, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal James Grandy said. Names and nationalities of the dead and injured have been withheld pending, notifications of next of kin.Three remaining skiers in the party have been safely accounted for.A spokesperson for the Panama Mountain Resort told CBC News that the avalanche occurred outside of its boundaries, but that it had closed some of its upper lifts in order to support rescue personnel.
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