{"id":178527,"date":"2021-12-06T00:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=178527"},"modified":"2021-12-06T00:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:49:58","slug":"avalanche-in-austria-kills-3-skiers-injures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/avalanche-in-austria-kills-3-skiers-injures-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche in Austria kills 3 skiers, injures 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BERLIN, 5 Dec\u00a0 (AP) \u2014 Three skiers have been killed and two injured in an avalanche in central Austria, authorities said Sunday. The victims included a rising young motorbike racer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were part of a group of 11 skiers, eight of whom were hit by a roughly 200-meter (655-foot) wide slab of snow as they ascended a slope during a ski tour on Saturday in the Tweng area, in Salzburg province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three of the skiers were buried by the avalanche, while another two were partly buried and able to free themselves, regional police said in a statement. Rescuers were able to locate two of the others with the help of their search devices; one was already dead and the other later died at a hospital in Klagenfurt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third buried skier wasn\u2019t carrying a search device. His body was located about four hours after the avalanche and recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The victims were Austrian men, two of them aged 19 and the other 24. The two injured skiers were taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The KTM team said that 19-year-old Rene Hofer, a junior motocross world and European champion, was among the dead, the Austria Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, 5 Dec\u00a0 (AP) \u2014 Three skiers have been killed and two injured in an avalanche in central Austria, authorities said Sunday. The victims included a rising young motorbike racer. They were part of a group of 11 skiers, eight of whom were hit by a roughly 200-meter (655-foot) wide slab of snow as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}