{"id":420665,"date":"2026-01-18T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:19:08","slug":"eight-people-killed-in-avalanches-in-austrian-alps-as-rescuers-urge-skiers-to-heed-warnings-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420665\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight people killed in avalanches in Austrian Alps as rescuers urge skiers to heed warnings | Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/austria\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austria<\/a>, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in the country\u2019s Alps on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Avalanches across the Alps have claimed victims since last week after heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEmergency responders were able to locate and partially dig out the buried victims,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDespite immediate rescue efforts, the three individuals were found dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier Saturday, another avalanche swept away an off-piste skier in the same area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDespite clear and repeated warnings, numerous avalanches occurred again today \u2013 unfortunately with fatal consequences,\u201d Gerhard Kremser, district head of the Pongau mountain rescue service, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis tragedy painfully demonstrates the seriousness of the current avalanche situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Tuesday, an avalanche killed a 13-year-old Czech skiing off-piste in the Austrian Alpine resort of Bad Gastein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last Sunday, a 58-year-old ski tourer died in an avalanche in the Tyrolean resort of Weerberg in western Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last weekend in France, six skiers died after being caught in avalanches in various Alpine resorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central Austria, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-420665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}