Updated December 28, 2019, 11:11 p.m.
Three Germans die in an avalanche in South Tyrol. Children are among the dead. The rescue workers continue to search the scene of the accident.
In the event of an avalanche accident in South-Tirol According to police, three Germans died – including two seven-year-old girls. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Carabinieri in Bozen of the German Press Agency on Saturday evening. A 25-year-old woman and one of the girls come from Hauteroda (Kyffhäuserkreis) in Thuringia, the other girl from Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Child dies in hospital
The people were on a slope in the Schnalstal west of Merano when the avalanche cleared at around 3,000 meters around Saturday noon and raced into a ski area. An eleven-year-old boy and his father, who also come from Eschweiler, were injured in the avalanche.
A spokesman for the Federal Foreign Office confirmed late Saturday evening that the dead were three Germans.
According to the Carabinieri spokesman, there was no avalanche risk. However, there was strong wind at the time of the accident and there had been a rise in temperature.
Possibly more victims
According to the police, the woman from Hauteroda and the girl from Eschweiler could only be recovered dead from the avalanche. The other girl was seriously injured with the rescue helicopter to a hospital in Trento, where she died of her injuries on Saturday evening.
The rescue workers also looked for other missing persons on Saturday. In the evening it was not entirely clear whether more people were buried. (Mt / dpa)
The avalanche had fallen on Thursday in the Swiss ski resort of Andermatt. Miraculously, all victims were released from the snow masses alive.
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