Two cross-country skiers were killed and three others were injured in two separate avalanches in the Swiss Alps this weekend, police said Sunday. One of the avalanches, on the Tsa mountain, above the village of Arolla in the southern Swiss canton of Wallis, swept away four skiers shortly after 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday, cantonal police said.
The four Swiss nationals had left the Tsa mountain refuge in two separate groups and had been moving through a narrow passage when the avalanche struck. Rescue workers arrived by helicopter and were able to dig out the buried skiers, who were flown to hospital.
Wallis police initially said all four were injured, but Sunday morning they announced one of the skiers, a 40-year-old woman, had succumbed to her wounds.
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