This scary footage captures the moment skiers in Austria were buried under an avalanche on Christmas Day.
Scary footage captures the moment skiers were buried under an avalanche on Christmas Day.
Up to 10 people were thought to be missing based on the video of the dramatic scene on a ski trail in the Austrian Alps.They hadn’t reported their involvement and it took police hours to find out the truth about the incident, near the town of Zuers. Officers have said ‘according to the current state of information, it can be assumed that no further persons are missing’.Three people suffered minor injuries, with 200 rescuers deployed to search the area overall.Police believe everyone has been found The angry flow of snow takes out the skiers in a matter of seconds in the footage.
The avalanche covered 500 yards of the trail near the 8,900ft Trittkopf mountain, police in the Vorarlberg region said.The concerned mountain rescue service had rated the avalanche danger as high. Explosives had been set off in that area beforehand to reduce the risk of an avalanche, the head of tourism in the Zuers and Lech am Arlberg region, Hermann Fercher, said.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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