Five people died and one was reported missing after an avalanche that occurred on Sunday on a glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps, according to the new balance made today by the French authorities.
On Sunday, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said four people had been killed in the avalanche on the Armancette glacier, in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps, which occurred shortly before noon local time.
They found “a 39-year-old woman” [ainda no domingo] and a “sixth person is still missing,” regional prosecutor Karline Bouisset said today.
The weather conditions were good on Easter Sunday, the mayor of Contamines-Montjoie, François Barbier, told the AFP news agency.
Météo-France, France’s meteorological institute, has not issued avalanche warnings for the region.
Initially, the emergency services found four dead, rescued one slightly injured person and eight other people escaped unharmed from the disaster.
According to the deputy mayor of the city of Contamines-Montjoie Elisabeth Mollard, interviewed on the RTL television channel, the fifth victim was found on Sunday at the end of the day. The sixth person, who is missing, would be her wife, according to her information.
Among the dead are also two guides from the St-Gervais (Haute-Savoie) company, the National Union of Mountain Guides announced in a statement. The identities of the other victims have not been released.
On this same glacier, two brothers, experienced mountaineers in their twenties, died on December 25, 2014.
According to the mayor, a larger avalanche occurred at the same location in December 2021, “down towards the town”, but caused no casualties.
Source: TSF
