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More Avalanche Victims Over the Weekend
The highest levels of snow in 30 years which meant several fatal avalanches in the last week has prompted Austrian officials to renew warnings to skiers to take extra care.
In many regions in the Alpine republic the avalanche warning danger is at the top level and experts hired to check piste safety have been working round the clock to detonate unsafe snow fields.
They also drafted in 11 army helicopters and Interior Ministry helicopters to fly experts to danger zones after many roads were left impassable.
The experts assess the danger and either warn people to keep away from risky areas or use controlled explosions to send the snow falling down into the valley.
The number of people caught up in avalanches continue to rise over the weekend although there were initially no reports of any new deaths since two people were killed last week.
A tour guide was found dead in Zirbitzkogel late in the afternoon and only a few hours later mountain rescue discovered the corpse of an alpine policeman. The 56-year-old was carried away by an avalanche right in front his wife in Leoben at around midday.
The two deaths come after a Swedish tourist was swept away and killed by an avalanche when skiing on piste in Ischgl, Austra on Wednesday.
Some 90 guests and employees of Hotel St. Christoph am Arlberg were also left stranded after an avalanche left the entrance to their hotel buried beneath meters of snow early on Thursday. Mountain rescue teams, fire rescue and alpine police were deployed to remove the masses of snow, with sniffer dogs checking for possible victims.
Hotel manager Elisabeth Wechselberger said, "Thank god no one was out of the house at this time-there were no injuries."
Rudi Mair from the Tyrol avalanche warning service said, "Winter is here. But no new snow is forecast and we hope that the warm conditions in the coming week will mean that much of the snow settles."
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