Alpine Accidents Claim Lives in Austria and France

Three people died in separate Alpine accidents including a Ukrainian child buried by an avalanche while skiing off-piste in Austria and a Danish tourist.A skier in France suffered a suspected heart attack in a cable car as temperatures in parts of the region plummeted to minus 14 degrees Celsius.Emergency rescue teams in Switzerland successfully saved another skier buried by an avalanche during the same period of extreme and hazardous winter weather.