{"id":322386,"date":"2026-01-18T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322386"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:59:42","slug":"austria-avalanche-kills-3-bringing-toll-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322386","title":{"rendered":"Austria avalanche kills 3, bringing toll to 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2026\/01\/18\/image-352106-1768703676.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>VIENNA, Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central Austria, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in the country&#8217;s Alps on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avalanches across the Alps have claimed victims since last week following heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An avalanche swept away three of a group of seven Czech ski tourers in the Murtal district in Styria province, burying them completely, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Emergency responders were able to locate and partially dig out the buried victims,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Despite immediate rescue efforts, the three individuals were found dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Saturday, in the Pongau area near Salzburg, an avalanche hit another group of seven off-piste skiers, killing four and seriously injuring another, media reported, citing rescuers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Saturday, another avalanche swept away an off-piste skier in the same area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Despite clear and repeated warnings, numerous avalanches occurred again today &#8212; unfortunately with fatal consequences,&#8221; Gerhard Kremser, district head of the Pongau mountain rescue service, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This tragedy painfully demonstrates the seriousness of the current avalanche situation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, an avalanche killed a 13-year-old Czech skiing off-piste in the Austrian Alpine resort of Bad Gastein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Sunday, 58-year-old ski tourer died in an avalanche in the Tyrolean resort of Weerberg in western Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In neighbouring Switzerland, a German man was killed in an avalanche, and four other people were hurt, as they were cross-country skiing on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend in France, six skiers died after being caught in avalanches in various Alpine resorts. &#8212; NNN=AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA, Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central Austria, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in the country&#8217;s Alps on Saturday. Avalanches across the Alps have claimed victims since last week following heavy snowfall. An avalanche swept away three of a group of seven Czech ski tourers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322387,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322386\/revisions\/322387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}