Four people were killed and more injured in an avalanche Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
"Emergency responders are still at work" and the toll is"provisional", Darmanin wrote on Twitter, adding that he was"thinking of the victims and their loved ones."
Nine people apart from the four killed were"involved" in the avalanche, which measured 1,000 metres long by 100 metres wide, the prefecture of the Haute-Savoie department told AFP. The people involved, whose identities have not yet been determined, were hiking near the Glacier d'Armancette as part of one or several groups."We're thinking of as well as of their families," President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter.Footage shows moment of deadly avalanche in the French AlpsTwo brothers died in an avalanche on the same glacier in 2014, both experienced climbers in their 20s.
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