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| Tignes avalanche: All skiers reported safe after resort struck by avalanche | Tignes avalanche: All skiers reported safe after resort struck by avalanche |
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| No one has been hurt in an avalanche that struck the French ski resort of Tignes, reports say. | No one has been hurt in an avalanche that struck the French ski resort of Tignes, reports say. |
| Early reports quoted police as saying the avalanche buried several skiers. | Early reports quoted police as saying the avalanche buried several skiers. |
| Bad weather had hampered the rescue operation but it has now concluded without finding any casualties, according to the latest reports. | Bad weather had hampered the rescue operation but it has now concluded without finding any casualties, according to the latest reports. |
| The avalanche risk at Tignes was said to be four on a scale of five, and part of the resort had been closed to skiers. | The avalanche risk at Tignes was said to be four on a scale of five, and part of the resort had been closed to skiers. |
| The resort said on Twitter that while there had been an avalanche there was "no drama", in reply to a supportive tweet sent by France's sports minister Thierry Braillard. | |
| A journalist at the scene said it had been snowing heavily in Tignes for days and that mountain guides had been setting off preventative avalanches to try to reduce the threat. | A journalist at the scene said it had been snowing heavily in Tignes for days and that mountain guides had been setting off preventative avalanches to try to reduce the threat. |
| Last month four snowboarders were killed when an avalanche hit an off-piste area of the same resort. Tignes said that it appeared to have been set off by a group of skiers higher up. | Last month four snowboarders were killed when an avalanche hit an off-piste area of the same resort. Tignes said that it appeared to have been set off by a group of skiers higher up. |
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