Scores
of rescuers worked into the night Wednesday looking for victims of an
avalanche that struck in the French Alps, killing two teenagers and a
Ukrainian skier after engulfing them on a closed slope, officials said.
Ten
students from the St.-Exupery school in Lyon, accompanied by their
teacher, as well as the Ukrainian skier were in the Les Deux Alpes ski
resort when the avalanche occurred late Wednesday afternoon, the
regional Isère government said in a statement.
Two
of those students and the Ukrainian died in its aftermath, the
statement said, while the students' teacher was taken to CHU hospital in
Grenoble.
In a statement, the French Interior Ministry said that the search continued Wednesday night for one person still missing. It also noted that all of the other children from the high school group had been found.
Some
80 people were part of the rescue effort, including military personnel,
police and dog search-and-rescue teams, according to the Interior
Minister. There were also helicopters -- some to ferry out the dead and
injured, and others to aid in the search effort, including one equipped
with a thermal camera, officials said.
Culled from CNN
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