The Austrian Alps have been experiencing avalanche in the years due to heavy snowfalls. Climbers are expected to assess the weather conditions before making such trips to prevent falling victims to sudden avalanche.
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A group of nine people were going up the hill when at 1200 GMT a strong avalanche was experienced and everyone in the group was trapped deep in the incident.
It wasn’t until three hours later that the help has arrived. Choppers skirted around the area and tried to lift the victims from the ground to a safer place.
Among the casualties three members suffered major injuries, one person was mildly injured and the rest five didn’t suffer any injuries.
The three injured casualties were immediately taken to a hospital where they were given intense care but eventually didn’t make any difference.
All the three lost their lives leaving their friends grieving about the tragedy that they have experienced together.
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The climbers met with a huge avalanche after reaching a height of 7,260ft (2,200m) at around 1100 (0900 GMT). At that time, the group was on the verge of crossing a deep valley, but was soon hit by a huge block of dislodged snow.
Among them, 10 have been killed, while seven others managed to survive the deadly disaster. The survivors were evacuated to a hospital after being rescued by search teams who were equipped with shovels and accompanied by sniffer dogs.
Officials blamed the avalanche of being a possible outcome of unusually warm temperatures, which caused the loosening of snow.
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Excess melting ice from the mountains combined with the heavy torrential rains is the problem responsible for the flood waters.
All the rivers in the city have swelled beyond limit allowing more water to flow into the city.
All the residents have been evacuated to safer locations until this flood in under control.
The most severely hit place is in West Washington where around 7 inches of rain has been recorded in the past 24 hours.
Many deaths have been reported due to Avalanches in the mountain routes, so to be on safer side all the mountain routes have been shut down for the moment.
Due to severe flooding the highway between Seattle and Portland in Oregon has also been closed
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In the North West USA snow fall started in the month of October only. So by December, the month in which heavy snow fall is expected, there is already heavy snow coagulated at all the places making the situation even worse with the heavy snow falls. In the past two weeks alone there have been 19 deaths that have been recorded who got caught in the avalanches and lost their lives.
Ski resorts across the world are suffering the effect more than anyone else. As the level of snow is continuously increasing in places like Austria members are losing their lives in the disaster. One skier was reported to have lost his life during his skiing session to an avalanche.
Countries like Canada, Japan and other cold countries have seen a few deaths in the recent days due to these heavy avalanches.
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