{"id":239159,"date":"2026-01-18T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:04:08","slug":"tragedy-as-five-skiers-killed-in-pair-of-avalanches-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239159\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tragedy&#8217; as five skiers killed in pair of avalanches in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five skiers have been killed in a pair of avalanches in the Salzburg Pongau region of western Austria on Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Four skiers were killed by a snow slide in the Gastein Valley, south of of the city of Salzburg, that swept away seven people. Two were injured \u2014 one seriously \u2014 and a third escaped unharmed, the APA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tragedy painfully demonstrates how serious the current avalanche situation is,&#8221; said Gerhard Kremser, district head of the Pongau mountain rescue service, noting the &#8220;clear and repeated warnings&#8221; about the avalanche risk.<\/p>\n<p>Four rescue helicopters, mountain rescue and Red Cross dog teams, and a crisis intervention team were rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 minutes earlier, a female skier died after being buried under an avalanche in the nearby Bad Hofgastein area, at an altitude of about 2200m, APA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five skiers have been killed in a pair of avalanches in the Salzburg Pongau region of western Austria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-239159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}