Three heli-skiers – all foreign nationals – have died in an avalanche in western Canada’s Kootenay Rockies, bringing the total snow slide fatalities this season to a dozen, police said. | AFP
— Three heli-skiers – all foreign nationals – have died in an avalanche in western Canada’s Kootenay Rockies, bringing the total snow slide fatalities this season to a dozen, police said Thursday.
Four others, including a guide, were injured when their party of 10 was caught in the avalanche at around noon Wednesday in the area of the Panama Mountain Resort, about 160 kilometers west of Calgary, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal James Grandy said in an email to AFP.The injured, some of whom are in serious condition, were flown to a hospital in Invermere and are expected to survive, he added.
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