Skiers rescued after avalanche in western Austria - BBC

All 10 members of a radical of skiers caught successful an avalanche adjacent the edifice of Lech-Zuers successful occidental Austria connected Sunday person been rescued, constabulary say.

Helicopters, searchlights and avalanche dogs were utilized successful the cognition to find the missing radical aft archetypal fears they had been buried successful the snow.

"According to our existent information, it tin beryllium assumed that nary much radical are missing," constabulary said later.

No details were fixed of the nationalities of the skiers.

The avalanche happened astatine astir 15:00 section clip (14:00 GMT) astatine an altitude of 2,700m (8,858ft).