Skier hit by avalanche in Trentino dead
Baku, March 17, AZERTAC
One of the three skiers who were hit by an avalanche on Monday shortly after 11 am in the area of Capanna Presena in Trentino is dead, according to ANSA.
Alpine rescue services intervened following the incident which occurred on a glacier. After the avalanche hit the group of skiers, two people were rescued while the third who was subsequently reported dead remained trapped under the snow.
And in another incident reported on Monday, a skier was wounded after being hit by an avalanche under Puntat Helbronner, on the Toula Glacier on Mont Blanc.
Meanwhile a man and a woman who were hit by an avalanche Sunday while skiing on Forcella Giau in the Dolomites above Cortina d'Ampezzo were reported to have died on Monday.
Elisa De Nardi, 38, from nearby Conegliano, died overnight at the hospital of Treviso while 40-year-old Abel Ayala Anchundia, a resident of Vittorio Veneto originally from Ecuador, died at around midnight at a hospital in Mestre near Venice.
A third skier who survived the incident, Andrea De Nardi, a 51-year-old from Conegliano, is being treated in Pieve di Cadore Hospital but he is not in serious condition, medical sources have said.
