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, ANSA has learned.
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.
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