An avalanche hit 10 people on an Austrian ski slope

At least ten winter sports enthusiasts have been buried since a Snow avalanche in Austria’s Vorarlberg (west) region on Sunday, police said.

“We managed to save one person And the operation to find the others is still ongoing.”, a spokesman told the agency AFP extension.

Several helicopter and rescue teams accompanied by dogs participated in the rescue.

The avalanche occurred around 15:00 local time (11:00 in Argentina) at an altitude of 2,700 metres, on the Lech Zürz ski slope. She was in the mountains trittkopf, a 2,700-metre (nearly 9,000-foot) mountain between Zuers and Lech am Arlberg. The snow flowed so much that it reached cover the nearby ski slopes.

At the moment, the identity of the people trapped is not known.

Salvage warned the weekend of avalanche risk in the area and in nearby Tyrol, pointing out the fragile snow cover in a temperate climate context.

In recent years, snowslides have on average come to a halt about twenty deaths a year in Austria.

Spain: at least six dead after a bus falls into a river in Galicia

Rescue services were searching for survivors this Sunday after a Christmas Eve bus fell into a river in northwest Spain, leaving at least six dead.

According to local authorities, the accident occurred shortly before 21:30 on Saturday on a national highway in the municipality of Cerdedo-Cotobade, located in Galicia, near the border with Portugal.

Total, Eight people were on the bus. which connected the city of Lugo with Vigo. Among them, Two people were rescued and taken to hospital: the driver of the vehicle, in his sixties, and a woman.

At least five people have died, according to rescue teams who posted an image of the submerged bus at the bottom of a ravine in a river among tree trunks on Twitter.

The victims

The first two victims were found in the night between Saturday and Sunday after the accident. The other three were identified at the end of the morning near the remains of the vehicle, the Guardia Civil spokesman said.

According to the spokesman, still missing one or two peopleS. “The number is still unknown” because the driver “has doubts” about the number of people who were on the bus at the time of the accident, he told AFP.

Authorities reported that the five dead They consisted of a young woman of Peruvian nationality, who cared for an elderly man in Galicia, and four of Spanish nationality, residing in the region.

Among the passengers on the bus were people who were visiting relatives detained in Monterroso prison, located in central Galicia, on Christmas Eve, regional newspaper La Voz de Galicia reported.

A motorist sounded the alarm after verifying that the safety barrier had been destroyed on the bridge where the accident took place. Rescuers received a call from inside the bus, which allowed them to locate the vehicle.

The left “It is a tragedy without palliatives”, This was stated to the media by the mayor of Cerdedo-Cotobade, Jorge Cubela, who highlighted the “professionalism” of the rescuers deployed on the site of the event.

According to the authorities, the rescue operations were complicated by the heavy rains that fell during the night, which caused an increase in the flow of the river, where the bus fell, but also the relief of the area.