Five dead in two avalanches in the Austrian Alps

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Five dead in two avalanches in the Austrian Alps
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Five people died in two avalanches in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, the country's public broadcaster, ORF, reports.

In the first avalanche, which occurred at 12:30 p.m., a female skier died after being buried under the snow.

Around 2 p.m., a second alarm came, this time involving seven skiers. When rescue workers arrived at the scene, they found four of them dead and one with serious injuries.

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