French Alps avalanche: Four hikers killed, others injured

At slightest 4 radical person died successful an avalanche successful the French Alps, the country's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, has said.

The incidental happened astatine the Armancette glacier adjacent Mont Blanc successful south-eastern France astir midday connected Sunday section time.

It's thought the victims were among a radical of hikers.

Mr Darmanin said respective others were injured and a hunt and rescue cognition was nether way.

Both helium and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed their sympathy to the victims and their loved ones.

Before the incident, the adjacent skis edifice of Contamines-Montjoie posted a video connected societal media showing a immense partition of snowfall moving down from the Dômes de Miage, which the glacier is simply a portion of.

The edifice urged radical to beryllium cautious if they were venturing off-piste - distant from the prepared skis runs.

Officials from the Haute-Savoie prefecture, wherever the incidental took place, told the AFP quality bureau that a further avalanche could not beryllium ruled out.

Two brothers died successful an avalanche connected the aforesaid glacier successful 2014. They were some experienced mountaineers and had been decently equipped.