Four people, including foreign tourists, were killed as multiple avalanches hit Norway’s far north, including one which swept a house and a barn into the sea, police said. | AFP
Pettersen said authorities were working on identifying the victim and contacting consular services to inform their next of kin.
Dan-Havard Johnsen, mayor of the Lyngen municipality, told AFP that the group was from Italy. But it had not been confirmed whether the deceased was Italian. About half an hour after the first report, police received notice of another avalanche on the nearby island of Reinoya “where a house and a barn were caught in the snow mass and carried into the sea,” Pettersen said, adding that two people had been confirmed dead.Later in the evening, police said in a statement that a fourth person had been killed in another avalanche by the Tverrelva river in the Nordreisa area.
“The person was part of a larger foreign traveling party. Another member of the traveling party who was at the scene located the person and alerted the emergency services,” police said, without specifying their nationality.
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