ITALY - Skiers hit by Italian avalanche

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Friday, 3 March 2006,

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Skiers

hit by Italian avalanche

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dozens of people have been rescued after an avalanche struck during a

skiing competition in northern Italy.

The avalanche hit the Artesina Rocca Giardina piste in Cuneo.

Hundreds of rescuers scoured the mountainside amid fears that

others might have been buried, but officials said no-one was believed to be

missing.

Correspondents say this winter looks set to be one of the worst

on record for the number of people killed in avalanches across Europe.

Already 39 people have died in the French Alps, while in the

whole of last season the total was just 25.

Last week 20 people died in France and Switzerland alone.

The BBC's James Cove in the Alps says the

avalanche risk has grown because of sharp temperature fluctuations - which

have made the snow very unstable - and greater numbers of inexperienced

skiers venturing into powder snow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4770604.stm

 

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